Fondazione FILA Museum

26 May 2021

Meet the designer – Pierluigi Rolando – 10

Talking about Italian hiker, Pierluigi Rolando referred – not without self-satisfaction – when, back from climbing, he revealed that he loved the horizontal white line placed knee-high…
15 May 2021

Labels: Polyester

If cotton and wool are characterized by centuries-old traditions, this artificial fiber has a much younger history. The very first researches on it were done by Wallace…
5 May 2021

IED Torino x Fondazione FILA Museum

The project was about reimagining, along with ten groups of students, as many alternative visions of our museum. The originality and the complexities of the proposals made…
21 April 2021

Meet the designer: Pierluigi Rolando – 9

The first is related to December 18th of that year, when Paolo Bertolucci and Adriano Panatta took over the Davis Cup in Santiago, Chile, in a final…
7 April 2021

Labels: Cotton

A gentle, discreet companion, gifted with the qualities of those who know how to always be there…since ever! Cotton fibers aren’t only friendly, they are also millennial!…
31 March 2021

Sources: the discreet charm of diapositives

In The Wheel, final episode of Mad Men’s first season run on AMC in 2007, American creative director Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is asked by Kodak to…
24 March 2021

Courtside: Silvana Gaida

Silvana, how did your FILA adventure begin? «I was very young, I literally did my time. I started in 1969, when the Maglificio Biellese factory was only…
17 March 2021

Meet the designer: Pierluigi Rolando – 8

During the mid-Seventies the rise of FILA SPORT grew at an exponential rate. The athletes sponsored by the brand kept on winning at the most important tournaments,…
10 March 2021

Labels: Wool

Because wool is a long-lived fiber, already adopted in Mesopotamian around 3,000 b.C. From there, it has spread in classical Greece and Ancient Rome: especially here, the…
3 March 2021

Sources: sales catalogs

Today, the myth of FILA lives thanks to the most refined digital technologies, but we have to think it isn’t always been like this. A specific category…