10 Corso Como launched a new project for fashion archive addicts, giving visitors access to a selection of fashion catalogues, lookbooks, and clothes from 1992 to 2002. Called “Inventario,” the exhibition runs until April 30, 2025 presenting a collection of more than 500 documents and ephemera, alongside a selection of rare and vintage garments. The installation is curated by cultural and retail platform Morphine.Online, in collaboration with Alessio de’Navasques, transforming these ephemeral materials into an atlas of images and imaginations, revealing the dynamic and transitional spirit of fashion. A layered fresco, from which figures and moments emerge, reveals a decade that revolutionized fashion’s visual and communicative codes.

Morphine.Online is again collaborating with 10 Corso Como, a year after displaying “Archive Circle,” featuring archival garments and accessories from the ‘90s that were both on display and for sale. A year later, Morphine.Online and 10 Corso Como reunite to create a site-specific project for the Gallery, expanding the very definition of the archive into an immersive installation that features seminal works by visionary creatives such as Mark Borthwick, Steven Meisel, Paolo Roversi, Juergen Teller, Marc Ascoli, Fabien Baron, Helmut Lang, Martin Margiela, Roberto Menichetti, Miuccia Prada, Jil Sander, Yohji Yamamoto, and others.

Inventario marks the formal acquisition and upcoming digitalization of over 1,000 fashion-related items, catalogues, lookbooks, and ephemera, spanning several decades. Thanks to the collaboration with Werksammlung, the private collection of Pietro Bosetti, built over more than 15 years of research and cataloguing, the archive has been further enriched. Beginning in May 2025, the collection will be available for consultation by appointment at Opificio Morphine in Reggio Emilia, a physical space dedicated to research.

Inventario, derived from the Latin inventarium, shares its root with invenire, meaning ‘to find’, ‘to discover’, and ‘to create’. It transcends the static archive, becoming an act of invention that frames the past not as preserved, but as continually reimagined.
Like scaffolding, it offers a structure to build, deconstruct, and recombine, an evolving device that generates new possibilities and forms of cultural dialogue. Conceived as a study table and an open lab, it invites viewers to explore fragments not as relics of the past, but as active components in an ongoing conversation. Rhizomatic paths, directions, and correspondences, through a syncretism of imaginaries, transform the runway platform into a flow, a scroll, offering new perspectives on a crucial decade in fashion history.

The 10 Corso Como Mezzanine hosts a temporary shop offering archival rarities, vintage garments, and accessories from recent decades, featuring pieces by Ann Demeulemeester, Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière, Bless, Comme des Garçons, Helmut Lang, Maison Martin Margiela, Raf Simons, Yohji Yamamoto, and other notable designers. This exclusive collection celebrates fashion’s most iconic moments, offering a direct connection with the past while making it relevant today.

Fashion Catalogues, Lookbooks and Ephemera 1992 - 2002
April 17 – 30, 2025
10:30 – 19:30
Corso Como 10, Milano