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Rome is cinema and fashion, Tilda Swinton "film costumes are monuments" - Lifestyle

2020-10-23T08:37:21.210Z


"Romaison, an invented name, combines two words that describe 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". (HANDLE)


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Romaison

, an invented name, combines two words that describe 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. Even in this historical moment our city it represents a perfect setting for making cinematographic works.There are

50 productions at work in Rome

, the last Mission Impossible that runs between the Forums and the Rione Monti.

Rome is a laboratory where you can do continuous research and make costumes

Cinema inspires fashion and fashion inspires cinema in a unique temporal continuum. "It was the Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi who presented the double project curated by the fashion historian Clara Tosi Pamphili, which includes an exhibition of clothes and costumes taken from the archives of theatrical and cinematographic tailors, in the Ara Pacis Museum (23 October - 29 November) and the performance

Embodying Pasolini

, directed by Olivier Saillard, starring the

Scottish actress Tilda Swinton who "will revive" the costumes of the films by Pier Paolo Pasolini,

at the Slaughterhouse in Testaccio in 2021. "The clothes are not fossils - explains Swinton - these garments are not scraps that are used only once on the set by a star. For me, who handled the clothes of Salò or The 120 days of Sodom by Pasolini, it was an extraordinary experience. An electric discharge. Their power over me was electrifying.

These dresses are monuments

. "


The exhibition in the Ara Pacis Museum

brings together the most important Roman costume tailors: Annamode, Costumes d'Arte - Peruzzi, Sartoria Farani, Laboratorio Pieroni, Tirelli Costumes, with the presence of sketches from the archive of Gabriele Mayer (fund of recognized historical importance, which will be donated to the National Gallery) and with a section dedicated to the historic manufacturer of mannequins Mensura.

The route opens with a map that allows you to view the presence of the ateliers in the area.

The environment then becomes a large atelier, where the technical, artisanal and creative dimension, typical of the laboratory, dialogues with research and conservation, developed by the archives of the individual maison.

Tables, metal wall structures, platforms, trace the guidelines for the continuous references between the production and the extraordinary collections of original historical pieces from the tailor's collections.

In a game of references between period pieces and costumes, exceptional dresses are on display by the English tailor Charles Frederick Worth, by Paul Poiret, from the Roman Maria Monaci Gallenga, who printed gold and silver on velvet, to Madame Gres, to the Romans Schubert and Zecca, to the French Dior and Balenciaga, who interact with each other with the costumes of The Conformist and The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci, but also with the Cleopatra played by Elizabeth Taylor, with the dresses of Salò di Pasolini, or with those by Miss Marx, presented in Venice, up to recent TV series such as Penny Dreadful.

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

"The relationship between Fashion and Costume" wonderfully ambiguous, in a parallel dimension of mutual inspiration especially in Rome "- as the curator of the project explains - is the underlying thread of this heterogeneous set of fascinating stories, which have been running for over a century , from the birth of Cinecittà in 1937 to the first international productions shot in the Roman studios, such as the Principe delle Volpi in 1949, from the golden season of Italian cinema to today ".

A short circuit that breaks into the representation of some cinema icons: Florinda Bolkan wearing a real Gallenga dress as a costume in the film Investigation of a citizen above suspicion, Donyale Luna, the first black model to appear on the cover of Vogue in 1966, in Satyricon, Silvana Mangano, icastically glamorous wearing her Bulgari sets in the Family Group in an Interior, Jane Fonda in the cult Barbarella.

Source: ansa

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