an extraordinary
archive
Over time, Canepa has put together a unique collection of age-old volumes comprising more than 15,000 books and documents from the mid-19th century to the present day, divided into print and jacquard ties, print and jacquard garments, print and jacquard shirts, outerwear, and furnishings.
The new rooms are home to vintage bandanas and foulards, vintage scarves, ethnic fabrics, vintage suits, vintage ties, sketches of garments, sketches on fabric for women’s garments with a contemporary style, historical magazines of the sector, contemporary illustrated books, trend books from the 1950s to the present, antique colour cards. A new dedicated area gathers more than 60,000 original sketches on paper and numerous designs on fabric.