The field of investigation of this study is cross-sectional to Architecture and Fashion. Always a source of mutual inspiration, today Architecture and Fashion draw the “new forms of living” (Avella 2018) designing spatial configurations animated by the bodies that “inhabit” it (in architecture) or that “wear” it (in fashion). In this study the Architecture is the sacred one of the Paleocristian and early medieval Basilical Complex of Cimitile in the province of Naples and near to Nola, whose historical-cultural value returns to that of Roman Pompeii. The site of Cimitile, despite being an excellent testimony of sacred architecture in Europe, does not enjoy the same notoriety of the Pompeian archaeological site. The aim of this research is to promote and enhance the sacred architectural space of Cimitile through Fashion, the cultural and social phenomenon that nowadays more than others is able to reinterpret in a contemporary key the historical testimonies so to make them endure in actuality. The decorative motifs of the basilical architectures in the Cimitile’s site are the signs of the past that become the ideational traces of the fashion design through the drawing of new textures that propose a contemporary narrative about the archeological site of Cimitile able to contribute to building a conscious memory of it.

Sacred Architecture and Fashion Drawing. The late antique decorations in Cimitile as ideational traces for fashion design

A. AVELLA
2021

Abstract

The field of investigation of this study is cross-sectional to Architecture and Fashion. Always a source of mutual inspiration, today Architecture and Fashion draw the “new forms of living” (Avella 2018) designing spatial configurations animated by the bodies that “inhabit” it (in architecture) or that “wear” it (in fashion). In this study the Architecture is the sacred one of the Paleocristian and early medieval Basilical Complex of Cimitile in the province of Naples and near to Nola, whose historical-cultural value returns to that of Roman Pompeii. The site of Cimitile, despite being an excellent testimony of sacred architecture in Europe, does not enjoy the same notoriety of the Pompeian archaeological site. The aim of this research is to promote and enhance the sacred architectural space of Cimitile through Fashion, the cultural and social phenomenon that nowadays more than others is able to reinterpret in a contemporary key the historical testimonies so to make them endure in actuality. The decorative motifs of the basilical architectures in the Cimitile’s site are the signs of the past that become the ideational traces of the fashion design through the drawing of new textures that propose a contemporary narrative about the archeological site of Cimitile able to contribute to building a conscious memory of it.
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