"It might have seemed madness to put robots in place of mannequins wearing Armani and Moschino clothes, thinking of doing an exhibition where
robotics meets fashion and mecha culture
, in a difficult moment like this one by the way. Instead, here we are. here, we are proud to have created such an event in Rome ".
Word of Stefano Dominella, president of Gattinoni, who conceived and curated, with the artistic direction of Guillermo Mariotto, who designs the same maison, the exhibition "
Robottizzati. Esperimenti di moda
"presented with the councilor of the Lazio Region, Alessandra Troncarelli and Rosalinda Celentano. The exhibition, created by Laziocrea with the patronage of Unindustria Lazio, is hosted from 31 October to 24 January 2021, at Palazzo WeGil, cultural hub in Trastevere of the Lazio Region , promoter of the event, a space open to fashion for the first time.
On display,
designer clothes on technological mannequins and robots
: the iconic garments of great designers (from Courrèges to Pierre Cardin, from Paco Rabanne to Thierry Mugler, from Yamamoto to McQueen , passing through Armani, Moschino, Prada, Ferrè) and the creations of young designers brought up by Dominella, ideally dialogue in a game of suggestions and references, with
metal
ir
obots from Roberto Pesucci
's
private collection
of 40 chogokins, metal robots designed for adult collectors. "I lived for five months in Nagoya in Japan - reveals Dominella - and I understood the meaning of robots for the Japanese.
The mecha
, robots of extraordinary dimensions controlled by a pilot inside, such as Mazinger Z, Gundam, the Transformers, represent for them the fusion of man and machine, they are
robots with hearts
that embody the idea of the samurai, contemporary heroes, new gods, the superheroes of the East ". After three years, the exhibition took shape with which Dominella researched the influence of mecha culture on fashion and vice versa.
The exhibition starts from the moon landing - says Dominella - since the first man on the Moon in 1969, wrapped in his spacesuit, he resembles a robot, a mecha. The spacesuit on display is the one made by Sartoria Nori for Harrison Ford in Apollo 3. But the first mission, that of Apollo 11, inspired everything fashion and costume to follow. Even well before 1969, stylists began to be inspired by the epochal event using metallic fabrics, lurex, aluminum, sequins and plexiglass. André Courrège was the first in 1964 with the collection
Space age.
And
some iconic pieces by Courrèges, forerunner of Sputnik couture
, inspired by the novels by Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick, are the protagonists of the exhibition. "Always around the attractive power of the Moon, the footwear brand
Moon Boo
t, born precisely on July 20, 1969, the day of the
moon landing
.
Philippe Plein
also created sparkling suits covered with crystals and showed a giant-sized robot on the catwalk holding supermodel Irina Shayk by the hand. "The Golden Lady Company - adds Dominella - for the exhibition with Mariotto, she created 300 colorful tights inspired by the Japanese robots on display. "At WeGil there are the creations of the great names in international fashion, some of which come from historical archives and collectors." We have these garments Robots "jokes Mariotto." But perhaps when Armani or Moschino made them they didn't think of robots "comments Dominella.
scene of films made by the cine-theatrical tailors Nori and Farani, the jewels-insect-robots made by the goldsmith Gianni De Benedittis of the FuturoRemoto brand, the great Gundam made with the 3D printer by the designer Silvio Tassinari of FabFactory, and the Realistic Robot, robots with female and male features of the Milanese company La Rosa.