This exhibition was created as part of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of Walter Albini's death: the materials preserved in the Bocconi Historical Archives have proved invaluable in helping reconstruct the figure of this designer who marked a turning point in the history of Italian fashion. After an initial video presenting the documents used in the exhibit dedicated to him at the Museo del Tessuto di Prato we revisit Albini’s case as an example of a research study supported by archival material on fashion. It highlights the ties between Bocconi and Italian fashion, including the Magazzini Bocconi’s mail order catalogs from the late 19th century collected in our archives, documentation on fashion collections of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, the new model of department store created in the 1950s at La Rinascente in Piazza Duomo, as well as documents from entrepreneurs and companies working in textile manufacturing.