I don’t really like using the blog for self-celebratory posts, but I guess this is not strictly about myself, but about a project I’ve been working on in the last few months.
The project in question is entitled "Italian Style on the Silver Screen" and it's a photographic exhibition co-curated by Rankin and myself in partnership with Peroni Nastro Azzurro.
The exhibition is conceived as a journey through Italian film and costume design that will allow visitors to discover quite interesting connections between cinema, fashion and style, revealing how many directors inspired the imagination of other artists and how film creativity rained down on fields of expression quite distant from those of cinema, proving an inexhaustible source of aesthetic suggestions for the fashion industry.
The event officially kicks off tomorrow in Edinburgh (though tonight there is a private viewing) at the Dundas Street Gallery. The exhibition will open in March in London and Glasgow, and I promise you will get the chance in the next few weeks to discover on the blog more about it and about the archives and partners that decided to take this journey through fashion with us.
The image in this advert is taken from Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits, 1965) by Federico Fellini (Costume Design by Piero Gherardi).
We have a few images from this film in the exhibition (one taken from the Rome-based Archivio Storico del Cinema that I absolutely love). Fellini’s first colour film was a feast for the eyes: its plot, characters, dreams and nightmares are indeed determined by strong and vibrant colours, filtered through an intense chromatic scale.
In this film colours enrich Fellini’s tableaux vivants, giving them a powerful dimension. A decoratively splendid, elegant and rich baroque excess, this hallucinatory visual enchantment was dubbed by some critics as “Alice in the Spiritland”, since it incarnated everything phenomenal, surprising, wonderful and fantastic.
Cinema, Fellini seems to tell us in Juliet of the Spirits, is an illusion. But isn’t fashion an illusion too, nourished by dreams, fantasies and emotions?
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this is awesome Anna, congrats! hope you'll share images soon.
Posted by: Alison | February 22, 2011 at 04:57 AM
Sounds like the party of the year. I'm sorry I missed it.
Posted by: Edinburgh park and fly | April 28, 2011 at 04:47 PM