The suit, from Thayaht to Balla

It is no coincidence that his conception and his name are the fruit of the futurist intuition of the Florentine Thayaht who in 1919 conceives a new object, so new that it generates a new word never heard.

TuTa probably derives from the mangling of tout-de-même, but perhaps from the shape of this strange T-shaped dress which is to the suit what the T-shirt is to the shirt.

Simple, practical, hygienic, popular (even populist), it diligently puts into practice the dictates of the Manifesto of the Antineutral Dress written by Giacomo Balla in 1914 which suggested moving from civilian clothes to colorful uniforms full of energy.

The Dressing Design by Archizoom: getting dressed is easy

A few decades later, to the radical cry of "dressing is easy because elegance is dead", Lucia and Dario Bartolini of Archizoom propose their overalls, once again to be understood as a symbol of rebellion.

Dressing Design (1971-1973) looks to productive simplicity, to practicity, to a provocation that does not refuse a smile.

Their "dress against" underlines a typically anti-system attitude, which rejects the old canons of fashion but flirts with emerging ones, as demonstrated by the collaborations with Elio Fiorucci and Oliviero Tuscans.

The overalls between design and fashion: Nanni Strada

Speaking of design, Nanni Strada has also reinvented the suit on several occasions, combining industrial production with the essentiality of the traditional costumes of North Africa and the Far East (think of the competition for the National Dress Arabo-Islamic from 1974), arriving at the most extreme technical performance with the fireproof overalls for pilots by Abarth System from 1984.