Ferrari Fashion School presents the third edition of 026 MEMBRANE, its annual Yearbook celebrating the multidisciplinary dialogue that defines contemporary fashion education. Conceived as a collaborative publication, the project brings together the work of graduating Bachelor’s and Master’s students across creative, technical and strategic disciplines, demonstrating how today’s fashion industry increasingly relies on exchange rather than isolation.
Inspired by the biological concept of the membrane as a permeable structure that simultaneously protects, connects and transforms, the publication adopts this metaphor as its central editorial framework. Rather than representing boundaries as fixed divisions, 026 MEMBRANE explores them as places of encounter, where ideas, cultures, creative practices and professional perspectives intersect to generate new possibilities.
A Yearbook Built Through Collaboration
Now in its third annual edition, the Yearbook was developed through the production of six original fashion editorials, each conceived through the collaboration of students from different programmes across Ferrari Fashion School. Collections designed by undergraduate programs in Fashion Design students were interpreted through the creative direction of students from the undergraduate course in Fashion Styling & Communication and the Master in Fashion Styling & Art Direction before being translated into visual narratives by students from the Master in Fashion Photography & Fashion Film.
This collaborative editorial workflow mirrors the structure of a professional fashion magazine, where designers, stylists, photographers, art directors and communicators contribute to a shared creative vision. Rather than highlighting individual disciplines in isolation, the publication demonstrates how interdisciplinary collaboration has become an essential component of contemporary fashion practice.
The publication was developed under the Creative Direction of Anna Lottersberger, with Riccardo Carrapa serving as Chief Curator, Riccardo Lanzani as Art Director, Beatrice Di Cuonzo as Graphic Designer, and Elena Flores d’Arcais overseeing the project as Project and Production Manager. Together, they developed a distinctive editorial identity built around a rigorous grid structure and a bespoke bleeding typeface created specifically for the Yearbook, establishing a cohesive visual language while allowing each student’s work to retain its own distinctive perspective.
Fashion as a Membrane
At the heart of the publication lies the concept of the membrane itself. Beyond its scientific definition, the membrane becomes a metaphor for the relationships that shape contemporary fashion: between body and garment, creativity and strategy, image and meaning, individuality and collective practice.
Fashion naturally inhabits these thresholds. Textiles become a second skin, styling translates identity into visual language, photography mediates the relationship between reality and representation, while fashion business connects creative ideas with markets, audiences and cultural relevance. Throughout the Yearbook, these disciplines are presented not as separate areas of study, but as interconnected surfaces through which knowledge continuously circulates.
Representing an Entire Academic Community
While the six editorials showcase the work of students from Ferrari Fashion School’s creative programmes, 026 MEMBRANE also celebrates the contributions of students from the BA Fashion Business & Digital Marketing and the MA Fashion & Luxury Management. Their academic research is presented through selected excerpts from individual abstracts, accompanied by group portraits that acknowledge the strategic, analytical and managerial dimensions of contemporary fashion education.
By bringing together creative projects and academic research within a single annual publication, the Yearbook reflects the complexity of today’s fashion industry, where innovation increasingly emerges through collaboration between design, communication, business and cultural research.
More than a record of a graduating class, 026 MEMBRANE documents the evolution of Ferrari Fashion School’s creative community year after year. It offers a portrait of fashion education as a dynamic ecosystem of exchange, demonstrating that contemporary creativity is rarely produced within fixed boundaries but instead develops through the continuous movement of ideas across disciplines, perspectives and practices.
