Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nanni Strada


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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure)

Nanni Strada

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Subject seems to fail WP:GNG and WP:ARTIST, as a before check turns up nothing of substance (I.E trivial mentions or listings), even in scholarly sources. Thus, there is nothing to lodge a claim to significance for the subject. An attempt to move the article to draft for incubation was reverted by the article creator, leaving deletion as the alternative. SamHolt6 (talk) 17:26, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
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 * Comment: The fashion and clothing business are far from my interests, but obtaining a Lifetime Achievement award on which we have an article,as well as having work included in a curated international touring show ("Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture"), with specific mention in the NY Times review of that show, seems at the least close to indicating notability in the subject's field? AllyD (talk) 10:03, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Nanni Strada has received two Compasso d'Oro awards, one in 1979 and the most recent a Lifetime achievement award, and her film "Il Manto e la Pelle" was screened as a part of the Triennale di Milano in 1974. The 2008 Somerset House exhibition "Skin and Bones" curated her work alongside figures such as Junya Watanabe, Shigaru Ban, Bernard Tschumi, Saha Hadid, and Peter Eisenman to name a few. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Christophermichlig (talk • contribs) 18:18, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment fashion designers do not belong in the artist's sort, per previous talk discussions. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 00:28, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - First, results of a quick Google Books search:
 * Nanni Strada has significant discussion in the following peer-reviewed academic journal "Fashion through History: Costumes, Symbols, Communication (Volume II), Volume 2" which can be previewed here. She is described as an innovative early 1970s designer, in text supported by multiple citations to other sources, and is credited with producing work comparable to that of notable designers such as Issey Miyake BEFORE they did it themselves.
 * There is a mention of Strada in Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design, which although it is a passing mention, also lists three authors and articles as specifically having further information on her and her role in Italian design. It is basically a "further reading" recommendation for anyone looking up this specific person.
 * Apparently she has her own chapter in Gloria Bianchino and Christopher Huw Evans's 1987 2-volume overview of Italian fashion. Only snippet views available. Looking up the book for further information, I see that it is a peer-reviewed collection of 24 essays by "a wide range of Italian fashion experts [covering] virtually every aspect of the last 37 years of Italian couture, film, fashion photography, and Italian knitwear." So this sounds like a very solid source for Strada.
 * A 1984 book titled "The hot house: Italian new wave design" by Andrea Branzi also shows via snippets that there is quite significant coverage of Strada in it, plus a biographical entry for her.

In addition to the Skin + Bone exhibition mentioned above (which I went to see at Somerset House and enjoyed very much indeed), I see references to her work being included in a number of other exhibitions. The PDF for the catalogue for Skin + Bone can be downloaded here which allows us to read what the curators said about Nanni Strada's pieces (six or seven in all, which is no insignificant number considering the size of the exhibition). I also believe that Italian speakers/readers will be able to find significant sources in the Italian language for this person, but it seems to me that she is more than notable enough to have an article as sources published over several decades exist - showing her ongoing notability - and that she meets quite a few criteria. Both as an artist and as a designer. Because you can be BOTH an artist and a fashion designer, as the likes of Sonia Delaunay, Natalia Goncharova, or Salvador Dali could confirm.... Mabalu (talk) 23:52, 19 October 2018 (UTC)


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