Swinging London, Mary Quant's miniskirt, Ossie Clark's wearable visions, the colorful shop windows of Carnaby Street in Soho and the moon landing: the legacy associated with the aesthetic imagery of the Sixties constitutes a semantic basin that can be reinterpreted under multiple wait. A violently revolutionary age only in its epilogue, the scenario of the Sixties actually acts as a tutelary deity of the visual contaminations typical of the fashion world.

Hence the desire to investigate the extraordinarily sweet side of the "fluctuating" decade – as the weekly Time defined London in 1966 – through an anthology made up of refined sixties atmospheres and references.

After the chapters Robotized - Experiments in Fashion (Palazzo Wegil 2020), Fairy Tales in Fashion (Teatro Torlonia 2022) and Rome is in Fashion - Via Veneto edition (Via Veneto 2022), and after careful research in important historical archives such as AnnaMode Costumes, Deanna Fashion Library, Max Mara and Ken Scott archive, Doria 1905 archive, Stefano Dominella – curator of the performance together with Guillermo Mariotto – draws once again on fashion by presenting The Sweet Sixties. Narratives of Fashion at the National Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome.

So here are fifty looks that through upcycling combine historical garments, true style icons, with clothes and accessories recovered in vintage markets and shops which currently represent the true trend of international fashion, adopted above all by the younger generations who like to recover from the past to make it contemporary. With the sets by Virginia Vianello, the protagonists, once again, are the clothes. Here are the bold and naturalistic colors signed by the creative genius of Ken Scott, defined as "the gardener of fashion" precisely because of his floral prints. And then the flaps of leather covered only by 40 cm of fabric by Mary Quant, up to the futuristic motifs designed by Courrèges, Paco Rabanne and Pierre Cardin. How not to mention the colorful coats by Max Mara, stolen from the men's wardrobe and reinterpreted with bright colors. Sixties fashion rewrote and reimagined the silhouette of an entire generation. Clothes, shoes, records and accessories - everything that, in a word, constitutes a lifestyle - become the poetic manifesto to tell the sweetness of those years.