Recent activities

Assistant curator, “Memorabile. Ipermoda”, MAXXI -
the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, 27/11/2024 - 25/03/2025.

Assistant curator, “Gucci Cosmos”, exhibition curated by Maria Luisa Frisa, project by Es Devlin, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai (28.04 - 25.06.2023); 180 Studios, London (11.10 - 31.12.2023), Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Arts, Kyoto, (01.10 - 01.12.2024).

Research, “Dior Scarves. Fashion Stories”, book edited by Maria Luisa Frisa, published by Thames & Hudson, 2024.

Exhibition, “Feed on Clouds”, co-curated with artist Xiao Zhiyu at MAA-Tila, Helsinki (31.05 - 18.06.2023).

Editorial coordination, “Cara moda ti meriti un museo”
Book edited by Maria Luisa Frisa. In collaboration with Edoardo Ferrari, September 2022.

Texts, lectures and speeches

“Virtual Bodies, Digital Clothes, Synthetic Worlds”, in Memorabile. Ipermoda, catalogue of the exhibition, edited by Maria Luisa Frisa, published by Marsilio, 2024.

Lecture, “Endyma Archive. Research, collecting & educating”, held at Università Iuav di Venezia, in dialogue with Michael Kardamakis, Filippo Vergerio and Fabio Zalpur of Endyma Archive, 22.03.2024.

Lecture, “Storie senza oggetti”, held at Università Iuav di Venezia, as part of the course in Curatorial Practices in Fashion, 13.03.2024.

“La persistenza del corpo”, in Officina, Issue 41, 2023.

“Archivio e direttore creativo. Heritage come progettazione“, in Design Intorno, edited by Nicolò Ceccarelli, Marco Sironi, proceedings of the conference, 2023.

“A note on lists.”, for the exhibition untitled: 4020 - 5422 by Xiao Zhiyu, Baerum Kunsthalle, Fornebu (08.09 - 02.10.22).

“I Dogi della Moda. Mostra per immaginare Venezia”, in Non è Venezia. Invenzioni Fuori dal Mondo, edited by Gundula Rakowitz and Stefano Tomassini, Quaderni della ricerca - IUAV, 2022.

Lecture, “Archivi del Made in Italy” part of the course Archivi della moda - Fondazione Fashion Research Italy, June 2022.

Speech, “The collection as a history of fashion”, presented at the
Annual research in dress history conference, curated by The Association of Dress Historians, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, 27.05.2022.

Speech, “Can a brand Instagram page be archived?”, presented at the conference Politics Through the Wardrobes. Fashion Tales, 2020+1, Università Cattolica di Milano, 17.06 - 19.06.2021.

Lecture, “Emilio Pucci Heritage”, part of the course Archivi della moda - Fondazione Fashion Research Italy, 11.06.2021.

Dylan Colussi obtained a PhD at Università Iuav di Venezia, dedicating his research to exploring the plurality of meanings of archives and archiving within fashion.

He is adjunct professor in Fashion Curation at Università di Bologna. He developed his interests during his master studies in Fashion Design. He is assistant curator of the travelling exhibition “Gucci Cosmos” (West Bund Art Center, Shanghai; 180 Studios, London, 2023 and Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Arts, Kyoto, 2024) and “Memorabile. Ipermoda” (MAXXI, Rome, 2024) curated by Maria Luisa Frisa. Since 2018 he is curating the archive of the Emilio Pucci Heritage Hub in Florence.

dylancolussi@gmail.com