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Fabrizio Modina

President / Artistic Director

Fashion Heritage Academy

Torino, Italy

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I'm the President of Fondazione M-Cube and Artistic Director of Fashion Heritage Academy

My organisation

Fashion and creativity are linked by an inseparable bond. And fashion crosses all sectors - from cinema to theater, from high fashion to music, from street life to video games - and dresses symbols and icons, elevating itself to a myth. The iconoclastic looks of Vivienne Westwood and Grace Jones, the new romantic lace of Duran Duran and Harry Styles, the alien colors of David Bowie, the uniform of Lady Oscar or the hairstyles of Goku in Dragon Ball, the corsets by Jean Paul Gaultier worn by Madonna in her videos, the leather jacket by Marlon Brando or the sandals by Manolo Blahnik sported by Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City become trends to copy and make your own. Clothes and accessories contain stories and transmit emotions. They carry with them the lives of those who wore them, but also the mastery of those who created them, the value and meaning of the materials with which they were produced, the creative genius of those who knew how to transform thread, fabric, paints, plastics, scraps or pixels into bearers of identity. The Fashion Heritage Academy was born with the desire to bring these values ​​to the forefront, study them, understand them, share them and transmit them to the workers of our future. To create the premises, first of all human, for a job market - that of fashion - in rapid transformation and not always with a clear path to follow. To train professionals who know how to embrace knowledge and cultures that are also very different from each other, to join together in teams to redesign, together, a sector in which creative and manual skills find strength in each other, generating high competence and the ability to innovate.
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About me

Fabrizio Modina is an artist working at the same time as teacher of fashion design and historian of Modern Mythology, a subject he teaches at the Politecnico of Milan, HTW Berlin and at the University of Turin. As collector and expert on Sci-fi and japanese animation, has participated in the creation of the exhibitions Watch Me Move! at the Barbican Art Gallery in London and Things from Another World at the National Cinema Museum in Turin for which he also co-curated Manga Impact, the world of Japanese Animation. He was among the scientific committees of the exhibitions Kyoto-Tokyo, from Samurais to Manga at Grimaldi Forum in the Principality of Monaco and Japan: from Samurai to Mazinger at Casa dei Carraresi in Treviso, Italy. He also worked on Female Warriors from the Rising Sun for the Museum of Oriental Art in Turin, Lady Diana, a free spirit at Venaria Royal Palace and Guerre Stellari Play, event-exhibition on the history of Star Wars, at Vittoriano Complex, Rome. Some of his most recent works are the exhibitions Manga Heroes for the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and Robot - The Human Project at MUDEC, Milan_, The Myth of Superheroes_ for Comic-Con Museum of San Diego, U.S.A. and Superheroes for NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany. His first book, Super Robot Files 1963/1978, which brings together the encyclopedic information about the world of the steel giants of japanese animation, has become sold out in the first five months of sales and was shortly followed by the chapters two and three. From 2022 he’s the promoter and President of the M-Cube Foundation in Turin. In 2025 he created the Fashion Heritage Academy.

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Skills

  • artist
  • Fashion Designer
  • curator
  • Lecturer
  • writer

Interests

  • Fashion
  • Modern Mythology
  • Pop Culture
  • Music
  • Animation
  • Comics
  • Cinema