Romaison, Tilda Swinton and exhibition homage to Rome of cinema

(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 22 - "Romaison, an invented name, combines two words that tell a unique city where fashion and cinema have always generated a creative system appreciated all over the world. Great directors and international productions choose Rome for their masterpieces".

It was the Mayor of Rome VirginiaRaggi who presented this morning by videoconference, the double project curated by the fashion historian Clara Tosi Pamphili, which includes an exhibition of clothes and costumes taken from the archival of the Roman theatrical and cinematographic tailors, in the Museodell'Ara Pacis ( October 23 - November 29) and the performance Embodying Pasolini, directed by Olivier Saillard, starring the Scottish actress Tilda Swinton who will "revive" the costumes of Pier Paolo Pasolini's films, at the Mattatoio in Testaccio in 2021.

    The exhibition in the Ara Pacis Museum brings together the most important Roman costume tailors: Annamode, Costumes d'Arte - Peruzzi, Sartoria Farani, Laboratorio Pieroni, TirelliCostumi, with the presence of sketches from the GabrieleMayer archive and a section dedicated to the historic producer Mensura dimanichini.

In a game of references between period pieces and costumes, exceptional dresses by the English tailor Charles Frederick Worth, by Paul Poiret, from the Roman Maria Monaci Gallenga, to Madame Gres, to the Romans Schubert and Zecca, from the French Dior and Balenciaga, are on display, them with the costumes Il Conformista and L'Ultimo Imperatore by Bernardo Bertolucci, but also with the Cleopatra played by Elizabeth Taylor, with the dresses of Salò by Pasolini, or with those of Miss Marx, presented in Venice, up to the recent TV series such as PennyDreadful .

Present the costumes of the great names such as Pescucci, Canonero, Atwood, Squarciapino, Donati, Tosi, up to the younger Catini Parrini and Torella.

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