Oltre il canone. Manifesto della moda inclusiva, Franco Angeli, 2024

This review of Oltre il canone. Manifesto della moda inclusiva analyzes how traditional fashion historically reinforces social hierarchies by defining a "non-marked" standard and marginalizing "marked" bodies. Mainstream fashion operates as an extension of this logic of the "taken for granted". Inclusive and adaptive fashion represent an epistemological break from this exclusionary model. Adaptive fashion focuses on practical solutions for people with functional needs. Inclusive fashion is a broader cultural and political project that challenges the notion that the body must adapt to the garment, instead redesigning clothing to fit diverse needs and morphologies. The review highlights a critical tension: while inclusive fashion promises emancipation and symbolic citizenship , it faces the risk of being co-opted by neoliberal market logic. This can lead to superficial representation without challenging underlying structural inequalities (e.g., exploitation or gender/class structures). Ultimately, the book's value is in its critical denaturalization of the obvious and its capacity to reveal the aesthetic canon as a social and political construction, offering a crucial "exercise of decolonization" and "aesthetic justice".