★Rights sold in US, UK, Germany, France and China.
★The most influential and innovative fashion designer. A modern philosopher. A dialogue about art, fashion, life.
★It is a unique object (with its artistic interior design created by Riccardo Falcinelli), where the voices of the two authors are intertwined and define the very idea of fashion, dealing with many fundamental topic (from gender identities to the relationship between past and future, from design to the way every one of us just putting on some dress, in the morning can “enchant” his daily life).
★English sample available.

Those are the shapes we use to re-design our face: every day, skin to skin on our body, they sketch a life of which they embody a secret that can only be lived. Fashion’s shapes are not only instruments to know the world and ourselves. They are also talismans and through them we create and make experience of new liberties. Freedom of thinking to new chances. Freedom of building original meanings. Fredoom of choosing who we want to be.

For the first time Alessandro Michele, former Creative Director of Gucci, uncovers and reveals his world with the philosopher Emanuele Coccia. The result of their encounter is an exploration that reaches the pure essence of Michele’s creations, showing how his work ultimately revolutionized the contemporary fashion system.
Michele is transforming fashion: with him, dressing is a universe that allows women and men to live in a different way. All through the pages of this book, fashion becomes the place where all the artistic disciplines tend to, in order to bring a new form to life.

A title that will appeal not only to fashion and celebrities’ lovers, but also to readers passionate about art and philosophy and will become a must-read for students and professionals linked to fashion and design industry.

Alessandro Michele was born in Rome in 1972. After the studies at the Accademia di Costume e Moda and some first experience in this sector, he reaches Fendi where, at the end of the 90s under the guidance of Karl Lagerfeld, he contributes to the brand’s great success in the leather goods industry. In 2002 he’s chosen by Tom Ford to design Gucci’s bags. From that moment on Alessandro Michele works for Gucci without interruption, becoming its Creative Director in January 2015 until November 2022. He has now been appointed new creative director of Valentino.

Emanuele Coccia is associate professor at l’École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris since 2011. Among his works, translated in many languages, are La vita sensibile (2016), La vita delle piante (2018), Metamorfosi (2020 ) and Filosofia della casa (2023). With the photographer Viviane Sassen, he published a book of photo theory (Modern Alchemy, 2022). He’s been invited as research professor by the univesities of Tokyo (2009), Buenos Aires (2010), Düsseldorf (2013-2014), Columbia (2015-2016) e Harvard (2022), where he gave a lecture on Alessandro Michele. He directed several amination video and worked in the art’s world, editing the catalogues of the XXIII Triennale of Architecture and Design of Milano “Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries”.