Title
Ferdinando Sarmi: Untold Stories of New York Fashion
Info
Director
Claudio Napoli
Eugenia Paulicelli
June Seo
Eugenia Paulicelli
June Seo
Location
New York City, USA
Year
2026
Website
ferdinandosarmifilm.com“We approached Ferdinando Sarmi not only as a designer to be rediscovered, but as a key to understanding a larger cultural geography: the movement of Italian talent into postwar America, the dialogue between fashion and cinema, and the ways in which an image can outlive the name of its author. Sarmi’s work belongs to a world of ateliers, stages, social rituals and visual invention. Despite this, his story has remained unexpectedly fragmented and then largely forgotten. Our film brings together testimony, research and a visual language that moves between archive materials and the present. New York is not merely the setting of Sarmi’s success; it is a living archive of the ambition, transformation and imagination that shaped his career. We wanted to make a compact film with the precision of a portrait: one that honors the textures of fabric, the force of silhouette and the human stories behind cultural memory.”
Claudio Napoli, Eugenia Paulicelli, June Seo
Claudio Napoli, Eugenia Paulicelli, June Seo