Art Thou’s Emerging Designers to Watch in 2021

In front of Santa Maria Novella’s basilica, an audience of special guests—including locals and tourists from all over the world who stopped to see the show from the barricades—watched as a new fashion renaissance began during Polimoda’s Final Graduation Show.

For the very first time in Polimoda’s impressive 35-year history, top talents from all of the design area programs—not only fashion design graduates—participated in Art Thou. “Discovering and promoting talent and diversity has always been our aspiration. It’s about amplifying inclusivity and diversity. Art Thou (be yourself) summarizes all of this. With the creations of our best talents, we want to respect and encourage individuality. The claim of the ego to show itself for what it is. A post-modern reflection about the authenticity of the one. The choice of the self to determine its autonomy of judgment and its very personal freedom of expression,” explained Director Massimiliano Giornetti. 

Here are the 27 collections featured in Art Thou.