This article adopts a double perspective to investigate Italian cinema and fashion, two industries and symbolic universes that strongly contributed to the construction of a new image of the nation and of Italians both at home and abroad, but especially in the US, during the period of economic and cultural revolution commonly known as the “boom” or the “economic miracle.” The double perspective on fashion and cinema is further articulated in the geographical and transatlantic exchanges that in the immediate postwar period helped define the political, economic, and cultural course Italy would take after the fall of Fascism and at the beginning of the Cold War. Over the past two decades, an academic approach to fashion (a field that had suffered from a lack of consideration) and more recently to the relationships between fashion, film, and costume (a field that has been further developed in fashion studies and in film...

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