Lidel was a nationalist women's fashion magazine which was in circulation Milan, Italy, in the period 1919–1935. The title was a reference to its founder's name, Lydia Dosio De Liguoro,[1] as well as to the words Letture, illustrazioni, disegni, eleganze, lavori (Italian: Readings, illustrations, drawings, elegance, works).[2] The magazine played a significant role in the birth of Italian fashion,[1] but at the same time became one of the most militant publications of Fascist Italy.[3]
 Cover of Lidel issue 8 dated 1920 | |
| Categories |
|
|---|---|
| Founder | Lydia Dosio De Liguoro |
| Founded | 1919 |
| Final issue | 1935 |
| Country | Italy |
| Based in | Milan |
| Language | Italian |
History and profile
editLidel was launched by journalist Lydia Dosio De Liguoro in 1919.[1][3] It was published on a monthly basis[4] and had its headquarters in Milan.[5] The magazine's target reader group was bourgeois women.[2] Its goal was to instill a sense of Italian national identity and nationhood among these women[2] and to compete with the French fashion magazines.[6] It employed fashion to promote the idea of a modern Italy and a sense of pride and solidarity among Italians.[2]
Major contributors of Lidel were Grazia Deledda, Luigi Pirandello, Ada Negri, Carola Prosperi, Sibilla Aleramo, Amalia Guglielminetti, Goffredo Bellonci, Matilde Serao and Eugenio Treves.[2] The cover page of the monthly featured work by Bruno Munari last of which was published in the November 1930 issue.[4] It frequently featured advertisement of luxury products and fashion illustrations, short stories and articles on art.[6] The magazine folded in 1935.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Ines Tolic, ed. (2017). The Culture, Fashion and Society notebook 2017. Milan; Turin: Pearson. ISBN 9788867742844.
- ^ a b c d e Eugenia Paulicelli (2002). "Fashion, the Politics of Style and National Identity in Pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy". Gender & History. 14 (3): 552. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.00281. S2CID 144286579.
- ^ a b Cinzia Capalbo (2016). "Creativity and innovation of the Italian fashion system in the inter-war period (1919–1943)". Investigaciones de Historia Económica. 12 (2): 92. doi:10.1016/j.ihe.2015.08.002.
- ^ a b A. Colizzi (2011). Bruno Munari and the invention of modern graphic design in Italy, 1928 - 1945 (PhD thesis). Leiden University. pp. 66, 70. hdl:1887/17647.
- ^ Manuela Di Franco (April 2018). Popular Magazines in Fascist Italy, 1934 – 1943 (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. p. 12. doi:10.17863/CAM.33377.
- ^ a b Vanessa Santoro (2019). Fashioning sensibility: emotions in Gianna Manzini’s fashion journalism (MA thesis). University of Glasgow. p. 13.