Staging precariousness: The Serpica Naro catwalk during the Milan Fashion WeekFootnote

^†The present article is the outcome of joint and indivisible work by the authors; however, if individual authorship is to be assigned, Silvia Gherardi wrote Sections 3, 5 and 6 and Annalisa Murgia wrote Sections 1, 2 and 4.

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