Fondazione Gentili Mosconi

04/02/2026

A flagship program is a high-priority, high-visibility initiative that embodies an organization’s vision, values, and best practices.

The Generative Archive is the flagship program of Fondazione Gentili Mosconi. We believe the archive functions is a creative hub because it generates new ideas, combinations, and connections continuously in the fashion and textile sectors, operating as a living, evolving ecosystem.

During its first year, the program created meaningful opportunities for schools and students, fostered collective and collaborative projects, and resulted in the development of site-specific, multidisciplinary exhibitions dedicated to fashion, textiles, cultural heritage, and placemaking.

We are deeply proud of this program and look forward to its continued evolution and growth

19/01/2026

«Red symbolises life, passion and love. It is a remedy for sadness. I believe that a woman dressed in red, especially in the evening, looks marvellous. In a crowd, she is the perfect image of a heroine.» Valentino

08/01/2026

The Generative Archive is an evolving creative hub created to support students, designers, artists, and creatives in developing their skills and building new connections.

The project is not only focused on heritage preservation, but also promotes a dynamic and inclusive approach. Our goal is to create, over time, a strong and open network that involves young artists and gives space to new ideas and contemporary perspectives.

As part of this vision, we have been working with a young emerging artist with whom we have shared several meaningful experiences. Among these, the exhibition at Studio Tucano, where he presented his personal interpretation of the jungle theme, and the event dedicated to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, during which he donated his artwork to support an important and sensitive cause.

In the past month, our collaboration continued at our headquarters, where he opened his artist studio to Gentili Mosconi employees and external guests. This allowed participants to directly experience the creative process and engage in open dialogue with the artist.

This collaboration reflects the core values of The Generative Archive a space for sharing, learning, and continuous creative exchange.

10/12/2025

We are proud to have contributed to Radici, a project that took shape thanks to the precious network of collaborations woven over time by

, as Main Partner, offers Anticamera continuous and long-term support. From this partnership arises a shared commitment to safeguarding artisanal knowledge, beautifully represented by the skilled hands of .moresi and .

Crossing borders, Anticamera connected with the visual world of , who not only crafted some of the fabrics used for the garments, but also inhabited the nave of San Pietro in Atrio with her artworks.

Radici unfolded in dialogue with multiple artistic languages, including the textile installations we curated (as ). This contribution reflects our mission to preserve and activate the creative and textile heritage that inspires our work every day.

Special thanks to the sponsors Jabivi, .school and

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The Radici fashion show was created for the Lake Como Creativity Week, organized by Como Città Creativa UNESCO

22/11/2025

What you see here is the collective installation, “Trame di Trasformazione.”
Eighteen extraordinary individuals came together as a civic-artistic collective to participate in this important initiative.

The piece is formed from a printing frame (a device traditionally used in textile screen printing) covered with layers of silk and coated in resin. This dense, vibrant material becomes a living surface prepared to receive a collective symbolic reconfiguration gesture.

During the first phase, each collective member was invited to identify and name words, phrases, or biases that represented wounds, imposed limitations, or internalized patterns within their personal experience. These elements were written on black slips of paper and placed at the foot of the easel. This constituted the primary moment of the process: an act of discarding, subtraction, and release.

The second phase is transformation. The emotional materials that were previously removed are reworked and translated into new words, signs, and trajectories that settle onto the red surface of the printing frame.

The third phase is shared revelation: the work emerges as a manifesto piece that converts individual experience into a collective lexicon.

This installation is dedicated to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It stands as an artistic and social gesture, a collective rite of transformation that restores space, voice, and visibility to intimate and shared narratives.

The work is the outcome of a workshop conceived as a participatory artistic device and led by Pollution Art, Antonio Berardi, and Laura Uboldi.
It was presented by Telefono Donna Como and the Fondazione Gentili Mosconi, in collaboration with the Italian Youth Association for UNESCO (AIGU) and the Anticamera Association for Social Promotion.

The workshop was conceived for the initiative “A Theatre All for Us. Together Against Violence on Women promoted by the Teatro Sociale di Como, and is part of the broader framework of strategic actions of Como UNESCO Creative City.

29/10/2025

Trame di Trasformazione -
Civic and Artistic Co-Creation Workshop
target group: under 30s

22 November 2025 – 2:30 PM
Foyer of the Teatro Sociale di Como

Reserve your place for the workshop
and become a co-author of a collective installation.

The workshop is curated by Associazione Telefono Donna Como and Fondazione Gentili Mosconi ETS
in collaboration with AIGU - Italian Youth Association for UNESCO
and Anticamera -Association for Social Promotion

The workshop will be led by Laura Uboldi, psychotherapist and art therapist,
and Antonio Berardi, fashion designer,
with the participation of Pollutionart / Marco Lombardi, visual eco-artist.

Trame di Trasformazione is a workshop dedicated to co-creation.Through a guided process, participants will contribute to a collective installation
to be displayed in the foyer of the Teatro Sociale di Como during the initiative ‘A Theatre All for Us. Together Against Violence on Women.’

Each participant will have the opportunity to contribute and become a co-author of the artwork. The workshop alternates individual and collective sessions, encouraging shared reflection on the themes of change, renewal, and transformation.

Free participation – 15 places available
Register before all places are filled: [email protected]

Participants under 18 must provide a signed consent form from a parent or legal guardian.
The form will be provided via email upon registration.

This initiative is recognized as a strategic action within the Action Plan of Como UNESCO Creative City
in line with the network’s values and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

29/10/2025

26/10/2025

Meet the creatives behind the site-specific exhibition Studio Tucano .palermo

Beppe Spadacini - master of Italian textile design - has transformed the tropical into an internationally recognized aesthetic code. Over the years, he has collaborated with leading Haute Couture maisons including Versace, Ferré, Etro, Walter Albini, and Tommy Bahama. With Studio Tucano, Spadacini takes on a new creative challenge together with:

Giulia Gentili, photodesigner and Vice President of Fondazione Gentili Mosconi, brings to the project her distinctive visual language, rooted in photography, fashion, and textile culture. Her work moves between digital experimentation and narrative composition, where image becomes both memory and material.

Pollution Art (Marco Lombardi), visual eco-artist from Como, transforms disused industrial matrices into poetic surfaces. His mixed-media works — acrylics, resins, water-based colors, and textile fragments — speak of regeneration and the fragile dialogue between nature and industry.

Pietro Fadda, designer and creative, navigates between fashion and interior design. After years at Missoni, he now designs for Canali and co-founded Anticamera, a cultural association dedicated to upcycling and experimental collaborations within the Como textile district.

Paolo De Santis, composer, producer, and soundcrafter, created the original piece Promenade Tropicale as a sonic tribute to the 230th anniversary of the Palermo Botanical Garden. Built on tropical soundscapes, analog synths, and piano improvisations, the composition unfolds as a rhythmic landscape in continuous transformation — where an unexpected marimba adds a poetic and experimental vibration.

Enzo Novara, Palermo-based wood craftsman, known as “the carpenter” par excellence, works in his atelier on Via Maestri d’Acqua, part of the ALAB network. His practice gives new life to ancient woods and noble materials, turning craftsmanship into an act of listening — between matter, memory, and time.

21/10/2025

Every place has a story to tell - one that is material, emotional, and deeply human.
Spaces are more than just architectural structures; they reflect the rhythms, memories, and creativity of their inhabitants.

For the Gentili Mosconi Foundation, every cultural project begins with people.
From museums to industrial sites, gardens, and places of daily life, each venue carries traces of collective memory and creative potential. These spaces are not neutral; they are mirrors of humanity—places to be experienced, not merely observed.

This vision defines our site-specific approach.
To us, working within a site means listening to its history, reinterpreting its identity, and enabling it to express itself anew through creative forms. Each project grows from a dialogue between fashion, art, design, and heritage, transforming spaces into living ecosystems where creativity regenerates meaning.

20/10/2025

From the collection of Giulia Gentili
Chapter 1: The Botanical Garden

The Fabric of a Leaf
The veins of a leaf unfold like warp and weft: interlacing lines that create a visual rhythm akin to that of a jacquard fabric or a satin with a complex weave. The pattern of the veins, with its regular yet organic flow, evokes the intricate interlacing of threads.

18/10/2025

Pietro Fadda at work
The Creative Director of Anticamera during the Association’s performance at the event La Filanda della Creatività, held at Opificio Zappa.

The event La Filanda della Creatività is promoted by Confartigianato Imprese Como in collaboration with key cultural and associative organizations, including Opificio Zappa, M.A.F.O. Museo Artigiano Falpe, Anticamera, Fondazione della Seta, AIDT with Comocrea Expo, AIGU - Italian Youth Association for UNESCO, and the Gentili Mosconi Foundation.
The initiative represents a moment of convergence between education, business, and creative culture.

This event is part of the official program of the Lake Como Creativity Week 2025.

14/10/2025

Studio Tucano .palermo #ᴘʜᴏᴛᴏᴅᴜᴍᴘ