
Palazzo Lombardia hosts the second edition of "Arte nel Cuore", a collective exhibition curated by Sara Digiovanni and Tony Parvizyar that celebrates Pop Art and its impact on art, design, and fashion, from December 3 to January 6, 2025. This immersive and vibrant journey brings together renowned names from the international scene and new artistic proposals.
At the heart of the exhibition are the works of Andy Warhol, including "Marilyn 1967" and other rare pieces such as "Heart" and "Sant’Apollonia," which capture the essence of an artistic language capable of transcending geographic and cultural boundaries. Among the displayed works are also the Dolls by Flavio Lucchini...

Special opening of the FLA Museum on October 19 and 20 for ApritiModa, the event conceived by Cinzia Sasso that brings together over one hundred entities, including workshops, ateliers, museums, and companies, across Italy in a single weekend, with the support of Camera Moda, Fondazione Cologni, Altagamma, and under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Milan.

The FLA Museum is participating once again in the 20th edition of the Giornata del Contemporaneo (Contemporary Art Day), scheduled for October 12th. Launched in 2005 by AMACI (Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums), this event aims to bring the general public closer to contemporary art, showing how surprising and accessible it can be, debunking the myth that it is reserved for a select few.

A small solo exhibition by Flavio Lucchini opens in Milan, 19 artworks that leave their usual home, the FLA Museum, to land in an unconventional but highly sensitive venue, Studio Lombard, an accounting firm that in recent years has become increasingly committed to the issues of circular economy, sustainability, benefit societies and social and cultural enterprises.

The Lab, a space within the FLA FlavioLucchiniArt Museum dedicated to hosting emerging artists, presents the installation "Bring me a Higher Love" by the young artist and designer Sebastiano Pelli. Sculptures and material paintings where the glimmers of gold (actually brass macerated with waste materials such as orange peels and coffee) meet the water element contained in a large central sculpture in burnished iron and brass. In a historical moment of great confusion, it is an almost ancestral reflection on the need for light and purity, which fits well with the sacredness of Flavio Lucchini's totemic sculptures

In the imaginative showroom of Cappellini, within an archipelago of islands set up with products from the new collection and reissues of great pieces from the past, four large Dress Totems by Lucchini have created an all-encompassing experience, blending art, fashion, and design. The sculptures will remain on display until May 31st.
And still, at Flaminia, on Via Solferino, six small Dress Totems in corten steel have embellished the bathroom collections with small and large color harmonies and essential style

At the end of the "thinking different" path of the Superdesign Show, the FLA FlavioLucchiniArt Museum welcomes us with a renewed exhibition in the Atelier space, where post-industrial architecture, the beauty of natural light, and three different exhibitions immerse us in a suspended world where fashion is sublimated and the boundary between art and design becomes increasingly intangible. "Fashion in a different way," as narrated in the documentary about Lucchini, directed by Giovanni Gastel in collaboration with Oliviero Toscani, looping on the museum's large screen.

At the end of the Superdesign Show journey at the FLA Museum, among the works of Flavio Lucchini, a delicate corner welcomes Mara Bragagnolo's inclusive collection, Nook. A series of innovative furnishings designed using an inclusive methodology that focuses on the needs and activities of autistic children. The furnishings, intended for use in children's libraries and inspired by the Montessori methodology, aim to create a space where children feel free to be themselves and interact without encountering restrictions, but rather opportunities.

Can art, science, and spirituality converge to give life to a collective work of art? After the incredible success of "The Meditating Mind" at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, the FLA Museum presents, on the occasion of Milan MuseoCity 2024, MEDITATION RAVE. It will take place on Saturday, March 2nd, from 10 am to 9 pm, a day marked by the contamination between art, spirituality, and science, guided by Daniel Lumera.

The Lab space of FLA, the museum's area-factory dedicated to emerging artists, presents during Milan MuseoCity (March 1-5) Laura Rota, a Milanese artist who creates abstract and geometric paintings with captivating colors, a kind of ultra-contemporary stylized mandalas, where nothing is left to chance, from the in-depth study of chromatic harmonies to layers of acrylic colors and pigments, all rigorously hand-painted, without the use of masking.

“Colorful”: it is the event that the FLA-FlavioLucchiniArt Museum is proposing as an extraordinary opening on the occasion of the 19th “Giornata del Contemporaneo”, scheduled in Milan, Saturday 7 October, when the museum itself will inaugurate a new space inside, “The Lab”, intended to host temporary exhibitions of young artists and creatives.
The colors, actually alternating with the graphic clarity of black and white, are those of "Hair", the one hundred emotional (non)portraits that Flavio Lucchini created between the last months of 2022 and the beginning of 2023. A life analysis?

The FLA FlavioLucchiniArt Museum within Superstudio Più, 2000 m2 of space, which highlights the great creativity and profound background between fashion and design of the founder of Superstudio, has recently added The Lab, a small laboratory among many dedicated art-room by Lucchini, where from time to time a young artist is "special guest" with a specific personal exhibition in dialogue with everything that surrounds it.
The COLORFUL event which opens in conjunction with Milan Fashion Week and White Show, showcases Davide Paglia for the first time with his personal "Energie" exhibit: impulsive colors that explode in space, alongside the latest "Hair" series by Flavio Lucchini, one hundred portraits of women defined without features but only by colors.

In preview Flavio Lucchini presents part of the new works created in 2023 with the exhibition “Preview. My Memories”, a series of one hundred… non-portraits, if anything of faces, in which color – but also the graphic cleanliness of black and white – intentionally replaces the detailed definition of features.

On the occasion of "Orticola", the traditional Milanese event dedicated to botany, and of the Milan Flower Week, Flavio Lucchini also offers the city a view of its flowers, in the Art Box of the hub at Via Tortona 27. Here are his unexpected, large “Flowers”: original, unreal, sketched, in reinforced plaster or resin. Some of them delicate and sweet colors like those of marshmellows. But the most part lack color, "because you can't compete with nature", because "their purity and beauty is forever". And so, the "Flowers" remain candid and smile at passers-by, inviting them to discover also the FLA, Superstudio's Museum where other works and flowers are on display. The artist's vision of the floral world recalls what the Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911, expressed in his work "The intelligence of flowers", dated 1907: "The plant world that seems so peaceful, where everything appears acceptance, silence, obedience, is on the contrary the place where the revolt against destiny is the most vehement and the most stubborn."

Two dark, large, deep, attentive female eyes, accentuated by a mass of equally dark hair that falls free alongside an imaginary face: this is the interpretation that Flavio Lucchini offers, in the context of the collective art project "Vision 47”, to two textile armchairs from the Pila 47 series, conceived by product designers Paolo Emanuele Nava and Luca Maria Arosio and made by Rubelli Casa, in collaboration con Oblong Contemporary Art Gallery.
MuseoCity is a non-profit association that has been working since 2017 for the promotion and enhancement of the great Milanese, regional and national museum heritage. The intent is to increase the involvement of an ever wider audience in the participation of the artistic and cultural life of the city, also giving the museum a comfortable and welcoming dimension. FlavioLucchiniArt Museum is now a “brand new” partner.

With the fashion/art museum in the basement of Superstudio Più, doubled compared to the inauguration a year ago and a now increased exhibition surface to almost 2,000 square meters divided into 20 separate thematic areas, the non-profit association Flavio LucchiniArt invites art friends to special days to discover the great tribute to fashion in Flavio Lucchini's drawings, paintings and sculptures. Here are the next events not to be missed.

FlavioLucchiniArt Museum reconfirms itself as a space for art, culture, encounter, even more for contamination between the various forms of expression, always able of "understanding" each other, in a logic that sees interaction as an undoubted enrichment for anyone who is involved and fascinated. This is the reason why the space hosted the presentation of the book "Not only kimono. How Japan revolutionized Italian fashion", an interesting and in-depth study by Laura Dimitrio, published by Skira, which explores the centuries-old and more than consolidated Japanese influence on the style and fashion production of our country, starting from the kimono up to get to the new-pop launched by manga.

Attention to world issues and the desire to find solutions to reduce weight come and in hand with new technology. From art to beauty, from social to environment, business seeks different stimuli. So the Japanese The Mot Company presented at the Superdesign Show 2022 at Superstudio Più an industrial version of the famous colored Dolls of Lucchini, the result of an innovative 3 D printing tecnic energy saving, with carbon fiber.

The “special guest" at the Flavio LucchiniArt Museum on the occasion of the Super Design Show 2022, is Carla Tolomeo, an anomalous artist in the Italian creative scene, who made her debut as a painter, dedicating herself since 1997 to sculpture-chairs that soon become the absolute protagonists of her work, presented on this occasion, in a significant selection of extraordinary aesthetic impact with a personal exhibition: “Never rest on my laurels”.

There is only a short walk from the Mudec to Superstudio Più. They share an industrial past in common: before the Museo delle Culture in Milan was transformed from a former Ansaldo factory to a contemporary building designed by David Chipperfield, the Superstudio had already been launched as a multicultural center for events and artistic interaction. However, rising on the site of the former General Electric, it has always retained its original nature as a factory.

As a creative artist and talent, Flavio Lucchini is now enjoying a productive time in his working path. His artistic career started in 1967, when he was the art director of the newly-founded Italian Condé Nast, and together with Giancarlo Iliprandi and other designers, they created the first autarkic version of the Art Directors Club, a yearbook of art directors and their most significant works. In 1985, he gave then life to the current, official, recognized organization, the Art Directors Club Italia.

An intelligent and sophisticated project has been installed in the many rooms of Penthouse number 3801 of the InterContinental Hotel in Dubai Marina. Created by the Polytechnic and Polytechnic Foundation Milan with Lombardy Region, it has transformed every space into a room or a living room where you can accommodate "at home" with the warmth and refinement of Italian hospitality for all six months of ExpoDubai2020.

Fashion can be passion, inspiration, art. This is how Flavio Lucchini, who has long been a fashion protagonist, celebrates it with an amazing sculpture.
Flavio Lucchini, as well as an architect, publisher, enlightened entrepreneur, is a refined or visionary artist. His great sculptures draw on his editorial background in the fashion world as creator of the most important magazines and they have become the evident symbol characterizing the three important creative hubs he founded in Milan, Superstudio 13, Superstudio Più, and, the last one, Superstudio Maxi.
DIVINE an incredible golden evening dress, shines in all its gigantic size (9 meters) in front of the entrance of Superstudio Maxi and lights up Via Moncucco.

Since yesterday, Museo del Parco of Portofino has a permanent guest among the many works of well-known artists: the white Doll by Flavio Lucchini, a white version “special edition” of his colorful newpop dolls. This is one more reason to visit this charming garden, a place of art and culture, overlooking the small square and the marina of the famous locality in Liguria. “White Doll” has been welcomed by the museum’s founding director Daniele Crippa and its curator and art critic Serena Mormino, along with several guests. The curator will tell you the story.

“La Moda in altro Modo” lands on Youtube, images and testimonies on the golden years of Italian fashion in which Flavio Lucchini has been creator and protagonist as art director and creator of magazines. Project by Gisella Borioli with direction by Giovanni Gastel, the film is a visual and complementary story of the autobiography “Il Destino – dovevo fare il contadino ma ho incontrato la moda (e non sono uno stilista)" by Lucchini.
A fascinating journey marked by social, costumes, taste and socio-politics changes transformations which Lucchini interpreted through his magazines and his art.

A large gallery mainly dedicated to sculpture is born in Dubai on the recently built artificial island Blue Waters, a luxury and peaceful oasis right in front of the chaotic Dubai Marine. Oblong, 300sq.m and large window glasses that give light, is born from the will by Mara Firetti, Paola Marucci, Emanuela Venturini, three passionate women who have dealt with art all their lives.

In 2019, beginning of the twentieth year of Superstudio Più, the AUTISTICO/ARTISTICO project is born, as wanted by its founders and with the patronage by the Quartieri Tranquilli association to give “special needs” kids (autistic and Asperger syndrome) the opportunity to develop and improve their abilities and relations by practising art, introducing them closer to painting, sculpture, music, performance, theatre, photography and more.

On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the Pane Quotidiano Onlus association, the Triennale di Milano presents the exhibition Buoni come il Pane, curated by Alessandra Zucchi and Alessandro Guerriero: a multi-form interpretation of bread by twenty internationally renowned Italian artists and designers and ten famous chefs who have created thirty new surprising breads.

Last November 15th the Auction House Il Ponte at Palazzo Crivelli in Milan held the "100 Women for Research" Beneficial Auction, created by Carola Gancia Bianco di San Secondo, with goods made available by one hundred important women, entrepreneurs, artists, writers and journalists, whose proceeds were entirely donated to the Piemontese Foundation for Cancer Research.

At Triennale di Milano a night dedicated to Lucchini's birthday, "Ricomincio da 90" ( I start again from 90), to celebrate the fruitfulness and continuous creative attention of an innovator who has left his mark in the fashion world in Milan. Saturday, October 27, 2018 from 21:00 we celebrate with a private event in the Hall of Honor with the movie LA MODA IN ALTRO MODO (project by Gisella Borioli, with the contribution of Oliviero Toscani and Giovanni Gastel, directed by Giovanni Gastel) and the presentation of book-autobiography IL DESTINO with the presence of famous testimonials.

During Milan Moda Uomo and White Show, Flavio Lucchini introduces his art book "Cahier, 1989/93" in limited edition of 100 numbered copies. Digital reproduction of the artist's notebook with temper and acrylic colors sketches from the collections of the Italian Fashion Icons, from Armani to Versace to Romeo Gigli.

Flavio Lucchini partecipates to Superdesign Show 2018 with "White Totem - Fashion Art Design" and the "Private Icons" exhibition

“Dear Gillo,
I met you together with Bruno Munari in 1948. I was just a student at Architecture School and was always in search of innovation and emotions

It’s a trip back home for Flavio Lucchini, who left very young for Milan, before where he became art-director, inventor of many important fashion magazines (Amica, Vogue Italia, L’Uomo Vogue, Donna, Mondo Uomo, Moda etc.) and successful artist and after, at the same time founder and president of Superstudio Group. With a large corten steel sculpture, a tribute to fashion and its origins, Lucchini enters the court of honor of the Curtatone Municipality, where he was born, invited by the mayor Carlo Bottani who wanted to celebrate the famous citizen with his particular “obelisk”.

Unforgettable, at Venice Biennial 2011 were Flavio Lucchini's Burqas and Abayas by Prada, Chanel and Benetton, explosive digital art works in a moment of international political-social tension.
Great anticipator and innovator in every field where he operated, from publishing to fashion to art, Lucchini has been the first one to create an ironic and yet deep comparison among society, fashion, way of living, advertising, women's role and islamic world, matching the traditional arab dress to top Fashion labels, in a strong and contemporary vision in times of globalization and debate among cultures.

Fashion, art, design. That’s the fil rouge, during Fuori Salone days and beyond, exceptionally connects SuperDesign Show, the project by Superstudio for the design week, with Fidenza Village, exclusive tourist destination for shopping with the best expressions of the Made in Italy. In the most “Colorful” season of the year, this trend is discovered in the window art.box that anticipates the design content of Superstudio Più, where you notice the multicolor, innocent and ironic Flavio Lucchini’s “Dolls” sculptures.

"Personality who deeply influenced the world of publishing, graphics, culture and art, with vitality of particularly communicative expressive language. Lucchini promoted italian fashion and design over the world to the point of being considered the real inventor of the Made in Italy". This is the reason for the Art and Culture of Communication Award given to the founder of Superstudio Flavio Lucchini, today an artist and in the past art-director of the most important italian fashion magazines, complete intellectual and creative talent, celebrated on the occasion of the Brand Identity Gran Prix.

Among 27 male icons artistically captured by Giovanni Gastel, in the "ON THE ROAD" exhibition in via Montenapoleone there is also Flavio Lucchini. It is exactly with him that Gastel, very young, made his first steps of his career as a photographer, when Lucchini was the art director and editor of the greatest fashion magazines. The exhibition recalls the imaginary transit "through time" of men on the road in a chronological "road map" from the 80s until today, from the use of the optical bench to digital, combining to the temporal artistic path of the well-known photographer.

An extraordinary art project accompanies the launch of the new Costa Crociere Diadema, the greatest ever flagship sailing under the italian flag. The "Queen of the Mediterranean" is embellished by 41 talents, some well-known, others emerging, and by so many as 190 original art works, selected by milanese curators duo Casagrande & Recalcati. Among Diadema collection, "Collection" by Flavio Lucchini stands out, the digital painting with acrylic colours and gold-foil, a tribute to individuality, regality and freedom of expression that fashion offers to every woman.

Fashion dialogues with art but also with food in Cooking Couture, the latest book written and curated by Gisella Borioli, with photos by Giovanni Gastel and the culinary interpretations of the starred chef Matias Perdomo, a project by Amazon BuyVIP, published by Marsilio Editore.
Flavio Lucchini's artworks - BlackCode/DressCode, Dress Totem, Fashion Luna Park, Dress Memory and Dolls - perfectly integrate in a play of visions and harmony.

AMICA has just turned 50. The first Italian magazine to be able to anticipate and witness modernity, from the boom years till today, has decided to commemorate its 50th anniversary creating an authentic sculpture-cover. This is the sofisticated present for selected VIPs, who will receive the limited edition anniversary-book. Ideated and developed by Cristina Lucchini, editor of Amica, the book is telling with great charm the evolution of fashion trends, from the point of view of the magazine. The extraordinary cover, a real 3D art piece, is a high-relief woman visage, selected from the “I’m different” collection, made by Flavio Lucchini (no family relationships). In 1962, he was the first art-director and author of the Amica’s graphic design. The book, with the same photographic cover of the art work, is now available in bookshops.

A sculpture by Flavio Lucchini will wellcome new Costa Fascinosa's 3.780 passengers, next great flagship of the group that will be launch in Savona on May, 6th. It will be the biggest italian cruise ship where contemporary art plays the lead role. There are lot of works, among which an overshadowing and wiggly catalyse white resin figure that represents a long night dress with train. The sculpture "Haute Couture" overbears inner swimming pools, covered by a crystal moving roof that makes even more magic and unique the atmosphere during the tours through the Mediterranean sea.

A new contamination fashion-contemporary art for Trussardi. Two artworks by Flavio Lucchini are exhibited at Ludicious, the new young section of the historical shop in 5, Sant’Andrea street, Milan. In contrast to the dark walls, on one side the artwork “Dress Memory”, with its white and soft waves, on the other one a colourful and ironic “Doll” highlight the double aspect, playful and chic, elegant and recreational of the new “capsule collection spring/summer 2011”, created by Gaia Trussardi: a mix of white and black, hunter green and blue female dresses, with a fluorescent touch for ballet shoes, jewels and leather goods.

More than 5000 people during the vernissage of "What Women Want(?)" by Flavio Lucchini in Venice during the 54. Biennale d'Arte, the solo exhibition about women images of burqas and niqabs, veiled looks of objectified women, big digital paintings, where the mouse replaces the brush. Many reviews on some of the most influent art and fashion magazines, among which Lara Bohinc for Vogue UK, who defined the exhibition "my favourite of the day" and "a brilliant expression of not celebrity-related pop art". "Those veiled faces that become paradoxical cover images shake our moods, make us angry and they ask us to think about what is happening around us, in the Islamic world, in our suburbs, as much as in that "far" Middle-East that has never been so close".

A female, totem-like figure adorned with a horizontal folds, a one-off piece of golden leaf created by Flavio Lucchini, is the precious award that will be presented to Frida Giannini, Gucci’s creative director, at the Charity Gala Dinner organized by “The Children for Peace” at the Eur in Rome.
This small statue has been specifically selected for the occasion because it clearly represents the union between Lucchini’s research and the world of fashion.

Models that look like dolls that look like scultures... Laura Biagiotti's latest collection, hosted as allways in Milan's Piccolo Teatro, takes inspiration from contemporary art and dreams. On each side of the catwalk Flavio Lucchini's Ghosts, imposing sculptures made of white mother of pearl resin. They represent divine outfits, they seem to optically reproduce the ruches, volants and plissettatures of the doll like dresses created by the stylist. A successful union in which sculptures dialogue deeply with the outfits, being themselves works of art.

A urban landscape between art and design creates an unexpected panorama during Temporary Museum for New Design: along the “road” stand the graphic skyscrapers, created by Flavio Lucchini and produced by Jannelli&Volpi with WallPaperonDemand technique, which immerse the visitor in a contemporary metropolitan atmosphere.

The Major of Milan, Letizia Moratti, unexpectedly visited (con)TmporaryArt at Superstudio Più. Together with Gisella Borioli, who had conceived the event with Giovanni Bonelli, art dealer and consultant, she went around across the spaces duelling on the exhibition of Stefano Abbiati, on the anthological exhibition by Flavio Lucchini, on the personal exhibition by Marillina Fortuna. She appreciated the presence of internationally famous artist such as Shepard Fairey and Banksy, but also the presence of young italian artist spread in the halls. She admired the imposing exhibition of ExtraExtraLarge with its big works of art, she smiled fopr the curious exhibition ExtraExtraSmall, with minimal art works. At the end she declared to the medias and tv that (con)TemporaryArt is finally a periodical event strictly linked with the cultural material of the city. Thank you, Major!

The Dress Art by Flavio Lucchini is on board of the newborn in Costa Crociere. An elegant and large Ghost in bronze was selected for the Lido Dorado bridge on the exclusive Costa Luminosa, dedicated to the contemporary art, the new ship that will navigate all around the world. The inauguration will be held on 5th June in the Antique Seaport of Genova, with highly selected guests and an exclusive ceremony.

Behind Flavio Lucchini's back, usually reserved and reluctant to any kind of self-promotion, Gisella Borioli, his wife and collaborator, sent some images of his sculptures to Arte Laguna Prize both for game and test. Finalist of the Prize, he is actually on show at 'Palazzo Bomben-Benetton Foundation' in Treviso and received the Special Prize for Sculpture rewarded with a tag and a solo show which will take place in the next future at Galleria Polin in Treviso.

Condé Nast Italy celebrates the fortieth of the birth of Vogue Man (or better forty-first since the first edition is dated September 1967) with a special edition and with a party. Vogue Man has been the first magazine investigating the men's fashion as an habit phenomenon. Among all revolutions around 1968, the most extraordinary and clear was the one connected with men's clothing. Flavio Lucchini, creator, art-director and interpreter of the social changing of those years, after launching Vogue Italia some years before, dedicated to that new inedited production which will influence the publishing industry, fashion and life styles through the Italian and the following international editions. As the current edition reminds us, all the icons of our times have appeared on Vogue Men's pages, from stars to artists and thinkers who considered the act of clothing as a way of being and communicating.

Dolls, flowers, pastel colour puppets reminding the famous American sweets called Marshmallows. This is the latest amazing project by Flavio Lucchini enchanting the walkers with a suggestive installation in the window gallery art.box.

Flavio Lucchini joins Christmas City Park with “Rotto ma aggiustato” (“Broken but fixed”), an advertisement poster fluo colors tree. From December 7th to January 6th, the open-air event brightens Milano streets and squares with 101 Christmas trees made in plastic, decorated by creative people. Christmas City Park deals with art, fashion, design, creativity, social utility and environment and follows the urban design and decoration trend started with 2007 Milan Cowparade. Under the same artistic direction, Gisella Borioli, this event is ment for charity too: all of the trees will be auctioned and part of the money will be addressed to Milan Environmental Foundation to create a new park in Milan.



4 Chapters. Now Flavio Lucchini presents four different chapters of his own artistic research. In the art.box it’s time for the “New Dolls”: high relief and sculptures showed from 15th to 25th October. New pop dolls made in resin but this time with softer acrylic colours. Small, funny and colourful, this Dolls are inspired by a fresh and ironic vision of young, impudent and naïve women. Next in art.box: Chapter 2 – Totem: from 26th to 4th November (totemic sculptures in cor-ten and chromo steel) Chapter 3 – Golden Age: from 4th to 14th November (sculptures, maquettes, gold and bronze bas – relief) Chapter 4 – Marshmallows: from 7th May to 30th June 2008 (dolls, flowers, dress inspired by sweet marshmallows)

“I’m different” is the brand new series of nine new candid reliefs - portraits by Flavio Lucchini. Art.box dedicates its September windows to this delicates and poetics art pieces. A game between light and shadows that redraws the outline whenever the sunlight changes. These subjects reminds us how women beauty is chameleonic with its make ups, hairdos and plastic surgery. The four white bas – reliefs are an open invitation to discover the whole series of this unseen art pieces but they also remind the possibily to see Flavio Lucchini’s complete collection in the under – gallery, here in Superstudio Più, 27 Tortona street.

Flavio Lucchini has been invited to join the charity initiative “Designdolls" – italian design for Unicef – in which designers offer their support to a social cause decorating a plexiglass child-shaped mould. Alessandro Mendini, Aldo Cibic, Massimiliano Fuksas, Enzo Mari and other italian worldwide famous designers have already joined “Designdolls”. As for the others, Lucchini’s “Help” black dressed doll (with HELP coloured letters) will be auctioned at Sotheby’s for the Unicef campaign “Uniti per i bambini, Uniti contro l’AIDS”. This event will take place after the exhibition, that will take place in October at the Triennale.

Flavio Lucchini has been asked from ADCI (Italian Art Directors Club), that from 1985 gathers the best italian creatives, to join "Adci Collection", an exhibition that presents limited artworks editions by designers, architects, photographers and artists which will take place at Triennale Bovisa. The aim of the event is to promote a creative exchange among the advertising world and the whole creativity professional world. Nineteen personalities will take part in "Adci Collection” and among them Aldo Cibic, Giovanni Gastel, Andrea Branzi, Michele De Lucchi, Paola Navone, Denis Santachiara and Flavio Lucchini who, for the occasion will exhibit white resin bas-relieves from the “Divine” series.

On April 14, Cowparade has officially started. With the curatorship of Gisella Borioli, MyOwnGallery's director, 100 cows were placed in the streets of Milan. Among the artworks by designers and creative people also appeared different cows made by artists connected with the gallery. At the Linate Airport, two white cows with red-yarn-covered-heads are kissing. Barbara Zucchi feathered cow is located in Largo Donegani The one by Gaja Lucchini, dressed with Swarowsky and pailettes watches the passers-by from Coin windows in Corso Vercelli. In Piazza Sempione the skinned cow by Mattia Bosco is covered with plastic ready for a trip to supermarket. At Magna Pars Flavio Lucchini presents his sexy cow dressed with female stockings and leather bosses , while at Superstudio Più, near MyOwnGallery, Andy's pop-rock cow watch the visitors.

Big success for MyOwnGallery with the opening of “Dolls”, last Lucchini’s exhibition where his colourful “puffe” (painted resin, shaped as bas-relieves) and “pupe”, (naive resin dolls) were shown. The Gallery also hosted Mattia Bosco’s cups-sculptures, Giovanni Gastel’s photographic interpretations and outside the gallery, an hanging installation realized by the mexican artist Rajmundo Sesma. This exhibition allows different artists, with the same attention to beauty, to meet and share experiences. On April 1st will take place a new multiple event in partnership with MiArt: at the MyOwnGallery ground-floor there will be videos, performances and music while at the first floor “Dolls” exhibition continues.

For their prestigious 2006 annual meeting, taking place each year in an historical building of the country, the most important Italian lawyers make an appointment in Milan. The choice of the location, which had to be representative of the 'new' Milan, fell upon Superstudio Più in Via Tortona, once the factory of General Electric and now a big private expositive and cultural centre, symbol of the district new birth and vocation. More than a thousand of lawyers could attend the convention and have a gala-dinner in a peculiar setting committed to art, industrial archaeology and contemporary suggestions, looking up to Flavio Lucchini's works from his Dress-memory, set in a committed room, to his majestic White-Totem in the main hall, the Gold works at the entrance of each room and a double line of Totem suggesting the direction.

Several artworks from around forty contemporary artists, including Mario Schifano and Vittorio Sironi, meet up in Genoa exploring the visionary side of art. At Palazzo Visconti Spinola takes place “Siamo noi. Un po' per gioco un po' per non…” an exposition organized by Studio B gallery. Presences and absences, visions and allegories are expressed through painting. Flavio Lucchini takes part to the event with “Dress Mould”: a crystallized dress trace where body is merely suggested and seems already disappeared.

The audience of MIART, after a visit at the great Milanese art exhibition passed to Superstudio Più attracted by the first edition of the market exhibition Unicité, an idea by Giulia and Gisella Borioli in collaboration with Recapito Milanese and Superstudio Group. More than 50 selected exhibitors, artists and artisans – artists, coming from every part of Italy and away, more than 2000 visitors, 51 journalists, an audience of high quality among which Piero Chiambretti, Luca Missoni, the choreographer David Parson, Beppe Modenese, Aldo Pinto, the designer Rodolfo Dordoni, Gillo Dorfles, Carla Vanni, Vera Montanari, Ornellas Noorda and other exponents of the cultural world of the city.

Open days in the under-gallery. During the Design Week, 13th - 18th April, the archive/gallery of Flavio Lucchini opens in the basements of SuperstudioPiù, the location which collects the great design exposition. Dress Memory is the exhibition, which gathers the most recent works of the artist: his white bas-relieves, traces of fashion engraved in the resin, fascinating icons of modernity. An intimate and personal way to get in touch with the works of Flavio Lucchini at his home for the first time open to the public. Casa dolce Casa is the supporter of the exhibition.

Dress-Art, the catalogue recollecting Flavio Lucchini's sculptures between 1990 and 2004, has been published. Lucchini, the mythical art-director who created the most important Italian fashion magazines such as Amica, Vogue, Donna and Moda, and who decided more than 15 years ago to stop working in the publishing field in order to dedicate himself to the artistic research, wanted to realize a small and naïve publication like a childish book far away from the emphatic art publications. The unusual and refined catalogue is the review of his work as a sculptor from his colourful Dress-Toys till his candid Dress-Memory, resin bass-relieves of his latest production.