’Timelapse’ is an apt name for a new Rizzoli-published book on Italian sportswear brand Fila, an unorthodox, era- and genre-shifting biography which spans over a century of design and innovation for sporting luminaries – from sailor Giovanni Soldini to tennis player Björn Borg, who first put the brand on the map in the 1970s.
The unique tome (available to pre-order from Waterstones, £65) was conceived by Italian journalist and fashion critic Angelo Flaccavento to ’tunnel both past and present into a single, forward-looking vision’. Alongside an introduction by Fendi menswear and accessories creative director Silvia Venturini Fendi, the richly illustrated volume is art directed by Milanese creative director and graphic designer Francesco Valtolina of Mousse magazine.
