IED Roma Fashion Show at Videocittà 2025

Date

04 July 2025

The best collections from IED Fashion graduates in dialogue with HUMANAE, the interactive installation by MACHINEZERO, as part of the Festival of Vision.

On July 3rd, the creations of graduating students in Fashion Design and Jewelry Design took to the runway in one of the city’s most iconic settings: the Gazometro Ostiense.
The event is part of the official program of the eighth edition of Videocittà – the Festival of Vision and Digital Culture, conceived by Francesco Rutelli and directed by Francesco Dobrovich – which, from July 3rd to 6th, will once again transform the largest area of industrial archaeology in Europe into a platform for moving images, visual experimentation, and emerging technological languages.

In this powerful and contemporary setting, the IED Roma Fashion Show becomes a narrative device capable of interpreting the complexity of the present, engaging in direct dialogue with Humanae, the interactive installation by the creative duo MACHINEZERO – Enrico Forghieri and Lorenzo Cordioli – from which it also takes its name.
Humanae is produced in collaboration with the Valmontone Cultural Hub, managed by DiSCo Lazio with artistic direction by Davide Paterna, and curated by Michele Lotti for Videocittà. Inspired by the frescoed interiors of Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Valmontone, the installation reinterprets its natural elements through a digital visual structure that evolves in real time. During the show, models walked through this immersive architecture, generating a constant interaction between garments, bodies, and images.
The chosen theme, Humanae – Latin for “of humanity” – invites reflection on subjectivity and belonging, placing the relationship between individual, technology, and environment at the center. Every interaction, even the smallest, generates a form, a content, a fragment. Within this network of stimuli, fashion becomes a sensitive and collective language: a construction of identity, an expressive gesture, a form of exposure.

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Among the projects showcased on the runway:
NUANCHES, a collection by Nicholas Franceschi, inspired by the metropolis as a symbolic place where different visions meet and generate new forms of expression;
TECHE, an intimate and conceptual exploration by Umberto Fenicchia, reflecting on the act of dressing as both a gesture of protection and exposure – an investigation into the body as an identity shell, a vessel of memories, dreams, and fragility;
and WHAT REMAINS INVISIBLE, the collection by Martina Mattiaccio, inspired by Bert Hellinger’s family constellations, Gina Pane’s Body Art, and Mannerist art, transforming fashion language into a visual act of protest, rupture, and revelation.

Also part of IED’s initiatives at the Festival is Heliopolis, a playable video mapping experience combining digital art, retrogaming, and public interaction. It is developed by Lorenzo Raffi, visual artist and lecturer at IED Roma in collaboration with students from the CG Animation and Sound Design programs

Thanks to Hairstylist Orazio Anelli, REA Academy Makeup