Brief overview on Italian fashion of the 60’s and 70’s with exhibition of garments of that period
EXHIBITION & FILM
EXHIBITION ON HISTORICAL ITALIAN FASHION
& FILM ‘CHRONICLES OF A LOVE AFFAIR’
Italian Fashion Show
Italians have dressed well for centuries. Italian silk textiles were famous throughout Europe from medieval times onward. Yet the Italian fashion industry as such is a quite recent phenomenon. It was in the 1950 that a distinctive Italian Look was about to emerge. A crucial step in putting Italy on the world fashion map was the first multi-designer Italian fashion show, held in Florence in 1951. That turned the spotlight on such pioneer designers as the Fontana Sisters, Contessa Visconti and others, The 1960s and 70s brought new stars to the fashion world Valentino, Lancetti, Krizia, Biagiotti just to mention a few.
Gianna Brighetti, a famous model of the 60s and 70s, has lent her original designer outfits from those years, while Mariolina RissoRicci also an ex top model, is the creator of the original display within picture frames of all dresses and scarves for this extraordinary show of historical Italian fashion.
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FILMCronaca di un amore (Chronicle of a Love Affair)
Film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1950. In Italian with English subtitles
Mr. Fontana a rich industrialist in fabrics and fashion marries the young beautiful Paola of whom however he knows nothing. After several years of happy marriage he decides to enquire about her past and hires a private detective. Paola had a great love affair with Guido, her best friend’s fiancé in the past. The fiancée died in mysterious circumstances…..
Guido, having learned about the investigations, contacts Paola to warn her. Their passion is rekindled.
………………but her husband is in the way………………
Entry free
Italian Institute of Culture
Friday, 17th May 2013 – 6.45 for 7.00pm.
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Italian Institute of Culture – 6th floor, Grenadier Tower – Westlands
Tel.: (020) 4451266 – Email: iicnairobi@esteri.it – website: http://www.iicnairobi.esteri.it/