《意大利》开始纪念处于1971年到2001年关键时期的意大利时装，并讲述其故事，突出进步的部分，让人们关注在那个伟大的“意大利制造（使意大利生活方式在世界的领先地位成为定局）”时期的意大利时装系统。

本书的制作恰逢“意大利”展览“通过时装讲述意大利历史，1971-2001”（2018年2月21日至2018年5月6日开放），它将意大利时装作为一种多中心现象（源于一系列知识和智慧）来呈现，并用插入了一组重要的照片，一些是摄影师为杂志所拍摄，另一些则是与设计师合作的成果。

本书还包含以前未发表的文章，涉及鲜为人知的主题和意大利作家们在审查时期发表的文章的选集。

Italiana sets out to celebrate Italian fashion in the crucial years from 1971 to 2001 and to tell its story, highlighting the progressive and bringing into focus the establishment of an Italian fashion system in that great period of Made in Italy that set the seal on the Italian lifestyle s leading role in the world. This volume is produced to coincide with the exhibition Italiana. Narrating Italian History Through Fashion, 1971-2001 (open February 21, 2018 through May 6, 2018) and presents Italian fashion as a polycentric phenomenon fed by a wide range of know-how and intelligence, illustrated with an important set of pictures, some taken by photographers for magazines but others the fruit of collaboration with the designers. It also contains previously unpublished essays on less well-known themes and an anthology of texts previously published by Italian writers in the years under examination.