In January 2017, the collaboration between Bologna Children's Book Fair – the world's leading professional event for children's and youth publishing, organized by BolognaFiere – and Pitti Immagine brought to Pitti Bimbo “The Extraordinary Library” project, an international exhibition of illustrated books that recount the history of fashion (curated by Silvana Sola and Marcella Terrusi, Cooperativa Culturale Giannino Stoppani for Bologna Children’s Books Fair).

The Central Pavilion hosted a selection of volumes from excellent publishing houses from all over the world: 100 books, 100 editorial gems selected by the curators for the visitors of the fair. Picture books that are enchanting for the hands, the eyes, and all the senses. Different forms and sizes, paper pop-ups, creative editions too, with pages that are full of awe and wonder. Amazing books that present the icons of the history of fashion and costume (from Coco Chanel to Audrey Hepburn) and play with textures, visuals, sounds, signs and colors that come from different parts of the world: from Korea to Brazil, from the US to Northern Europe, from Japan to Italy and from Italy in the world, passing through Florence and Rimini (where the exhibition was set up in the spring of 2017, in collaboration with the Dipartimento di Scienze per la Qualità della Vita of the University of Bologna, the Campus Library and the Municipality of Rimini).

Dedicated to this project are the scientific contributions collected in the monographic volume dedicated to the relationship between childhood and fashion, curated by Roberto Farnè and Marcella Terrusi, from the ZoneModa Journal of the Dipartimento QuVi of UniBo.