ALESSIONESI
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ALESSIONESI is an Italian visual author, illustrator, and creative consultant working across fashion, editorial publishing, and textile design. His practice combines drawing, visual storytelling, and editorial research through projects spanning printed matter, fashion collections, books, and site-specific textile works. Working between illustration, styling, and visual direction, he develops prints, editorial narratives, and image-based concepts for fashion and cultural projects. His work explores the relationship between ornament, identity, fashion history, and contemporary visual culture.

He is a professional journalist registered with the Italian National Journalists’ Association (Albo dei Giornalisti) and the author of DANDYLOGIA – Elegance & Avant-Garde (Santelli Holding – Edizioni Clandestine), a 400-page research volume on the evolution of masculine aesthetics and avant-garde fashion culture. Alongside editorial collaborations and fashion-related projects, he also creates textile compositions and large-scale illustrated surfaces conceived for scarves, printed fabrics, and visual installations.

His collaborations include Ferragamo, Marella, Les Ottomans, and Vanity Teen. He is available for editorial projects, social content, print design, book projects, and creative collaborations.

PUBLICATIONS

DANDYLOGIA – ELEGANCE & AVANT-GARDE (Santelli Holding – Edizioni Clandestine, 400 pp.) From Lord Brummell to Karl Lagerfeld: the evolution of male aesthetics from 1995 to gender-free collections FW 2023, featuring over 120 fashion silhouettes by pioneering designers including Helmut Lang, Ennio Capasa (Costume National), Carol Christian Poell, Raf Simons, and Hedi Slimane.

ITALIAN BEAUTY (Rizzoli ETAS, 288 pp.) by Anna Airoldi & Gabriella Lojacono. Contributions: “File Rouge” – the history of lipstick, and “Edizioni Effimere” – analysis of collections and limited editions, with references to his work and blog proprietexclusive.it (2010–2020).

SELECTED CLIENTS 

FERRAGAMO • MARELLA • LES OTTOMANS • VANITYTEEN.COM