Lidel (magazine)
Categories | Women's magazine Fashion magazine |
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Founder | Lydia Dosio De Liguoro |
Founded | 1919 |
Final issue | 1935 |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Lidel was an Italian nationalist women's fashion magazine which was in circulation in the period 1919–1935. The title was a reference to its founder's name, Lydia Dosio De Liguoro,[1] as well as to the words Letture, illustrazioni, disegni, eleganze, lavori (Readings, illustrations, drawings, elegance, works in English).[2] The magazine played a significant role in the birth of Italian fashion,[1] but at the same time became one of the most militant publications of Fascist Italy.
History and profile
Lidel was launched by journalist Lydia Dosio De Liguoro in 1919.[1][3] The magazine's target reader group was bourgeois women, and its goal was to instill a sense of Italian national identity and nationhood among these women.[2]It employed fashion to promote the idea of a modern Italy and a sense of pride and solidarity among Italians.[2]
Major contributors of Lidel were Grazia Deledda, Luigi Pirandello, Ada Negri, Carola Prosperi, Sibilla Aleramo, Amalia Guglielminetti, Goffredo Bellonci, Matilde Serao and Eugenio Treves.[2] The magazine folded in 1935.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Ines Tolic, ed. (2017). "Introduction". The Culture, Fashion and Society notebook 2017 (PDF). Milan; Turin: Pearson. ISBN 9788867742844.
- ^ a b c d Eugenia Paulicelli (2002). "Fashion, the Politics of Style and National Identity in Pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy". Gender & History. 14 (3): 552. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.00281.
- ^ Cinzia Capalbo (2016). "Creativity and innovation of the Italian fashion system in the inter-war period (1919–1943)". Economic History Research. 12 (2): 92. doi:10.1016/j.ihe.2015.08.002.
- Media related to Lidel (magazine) at Wikimedia Commons