Universally renowned as the master of the total look,Walter Albini created his first collection in 1963. After a meeting with Mariuccia Mandelli he worked with the Krizia atelier and, during his latest season, beside Karl Lagerfeld. Research on dress-making and fabric is one of the all-time features of Albini's work, to whom must be ascribed the birth of a new kind of relationship between the designer and the fabric manufacturer, opening a new groupageconcept for advertising on specialised periodicals. This book addresses a crucial moment in the history of fashion: the birth of pr?t?-porter with the definitive overcoming of the atelier and the achievement of a certain democracy in fashion. Walter Albini was a protagonist of this moment,aware as he was of the necessity for change and innovation in people's taste
