contessanally: Venice - San Basilio: Fashion at IUAV - MA Graduation 2017 - Backstage

Photograph by Messua Mazzetto – courtesy IUAV

Fashion at IUAV 2017

The Innocence of the Wall

MA Graduation Show – FROW - Backstage

The BA and MA Graduation Show entitled; The Innocence of the Wall, in the Fashion Design department of IUAV University of Venice celebrates the end of the Academic Year. Organized in the area of the Maritime Station at San Basilio, with the spectacular backdrop of the Canale della Giudecca the fashion show featured the best collections of clothes and accessories by the graduating students from the BA and MA programs in Fashion Design, coordinated by designers Veronika Allmayer-Beck, Arthur Arbesser, Fabio Quaranta. The show was curated by Mario Lupano and Cristina Zamagni and choreographed by Gina Monaco.

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“The innocence of the wall is an statement, a statement that this year introduces Fashion at IUAV. It's not a sticky label to attract attention, but it's the story of a way of being, working, studying, watching the world.”
Maria Luisa Frisa

For three years the students have been working in two red brick warehouses in front of the Canale della Giudecca, a panoramic view that embraces a non-stereotypical Venice, but rather a Venice that holds together different souls - the one crystallized in the past and the one that wants to challenge the future - in which, the university is set up as a kind of hinged territory that expresses, the complexity of the present. The view from warehouses, looks out onto the canale, which defines the port area with all its functions, it has become for the students a metaphor of a way of being; an attitude, that sees within the boundaries, not a limit or a closure, but rather assumes it as a place that can relate to differences, to understand diversity - permanent questions. The introduction of the title The Innocence of the Wall, borrowed from Simone Gobbo's thesis in Architecture and Design at the University of Genoa, seemed to be the best way for the community of teachers and students, to reveal a way of being inside things, both fragile and stubborn.
Above. Maria Luisa Frisa, curator, fashion historian, author and director of the degree program in Fashion/Design at Iuav with Chinese fashion and textile designer Uma Wang.

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Giudetta De Pretis – Tznuit

“Tzniut, in Hebrew means "modesty", it is the privacy of a lifestyle that translates into the clothing of orthodox Jews. From my memories at the Jewish school, emerges figures of women and girls, covering stockings, knees and elbows and with wigs. Tzniut recounts these feelings, intimacy of memories, and Jewish rules. The black dress, the white shirt and the waistcoat, borrowed from the orthodox male wardrobe, become the basis for shaping new shapes.”
giudittadepretis@gmail.com

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Giudetta De Pretis - Tznuit

Photogaphs by Francesca Occhi – courtesy of IUAV

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Giudetta De Pretis – Tznuit

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Giudetta De Pretis – Tznuit

Michele Bugliesi, Dean of Ca Foscari, Alberto Felenga Dean of IUAV and Monica Centanni

Pino Musolino e Signora, Fabio Marzari

In theme with the title of the show Pino Mussolino, president of the Port of Venice and Chioggia, points out that walls, nets or any other barrier are innocent on their own, that is, that they do not have a positive or negative connotation, it all depends on how you look at them.

Antonio D’Anna, Zhu Chongyun, Giovanni Bonotto and Paola Tomat
The fabrics for MA Fashion Collections, were provided by Bonotto S.p.a.

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Anahita Matin – 3434 Km

“3434 km is the distance between Tehran and Venice. The project is born from the experience of a group of friends moving from one city to another in search of a personal evolution. Each outfit is designed for the person wearing it and wants to represent its identity. Men's classic fabrics, linked to a Western fashion, combine with Chador and Kapanak, embroideries and volumes, telling memories, maladies, traces and experiences.”
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Anahita Matin – 3434 Km

Mario Lupano and Gabriele Monti

Ezio Micelli and Cristiana Costanzo

Pamela Berry, Alessandro Tusset and Angela Vettese

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Gregiorio Nordio – TribalItalia (Again)

“A series of local characters from Collodi to Gorino.
An acid yellow Pinocchio and a Red Pinocchio with donkey ears wearing a Rayon cardigan with an Elite rib.
A footballer in a Burkina jacket and an athlete in a polyester blue Burkina printed with sublimation.
A horned man in a black Tasmanian extra-fine waterproof wool suit.
A Madonna wrapped in quilted pink nylon.
An Italian dancer with a white sweatshirt and Hardcore Italia logo.
An Italian dancer with a red anchor and Hardcore Italia logo.
Sportswear, streetwear, outwear and other uses.”
gregn@hotmail.it

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Gregiorio Nordio – TribalItalia (Again)

Fabio Quaranta

Paola and Andrea Tomat

Maria Rotondo, Fabio Achilli and Emanuela Bassetti

Elena Dorazzan and Carlo Teso

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Giovanni Nordio – TribalItalia
(Soubrette, Skins, Balene Bianche e altri Statali)

“The Hammamet beach, Tokyo Fantasy (Alessandra Mussolini's Italo disc album), Annarella, the year 1992, carnations, Ciriaco De Mita and two girls with a shield embroidered on a silk dress.
4 ceremonial dresses + 1 suit + 1 body boy + 1 sports tunic + 1 work outfit . Polyester + Nylon + Cotton (lace) + Cotton (waxed).

N.B. The Specialized dress is made up of polyester recovered from a basket inside a Venetian company. The Polyester suit is printed with a photograph and was retrieved from a collection center of used clothes in Venice. The Craxi photo printed on the tunic was downloaded by Intellectuals.com. The printed body is Alberto Ruvoletto’s, born July 24, 1992. The black dress features symbols of Italian political parties reproduced and mixed in white, the quotation printed between the flames is by Giovanni Lindo Ferretti. The seams and the color of the workwear are Carhartt's cargo pants).”
giovanni.nordio@ymail.com

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Giovanni Nordio – TribalItalia
(Soubrette, Skins, Balene Bianche e altri Statali)

Marta Geromel, Vera Fantinelli and Paola Goppion

Adele Re Rebaudengo and Bassi

Judi Harvest and Justin Koren

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Anna Lena Biotti – Learning From Riviera

“A Hawaiian bride falls in love with an Italian surfer and follows him by searching for his lost paradise among the tropics. A wedding in pin-stripes and a white dress, is hybridized by a surfing wetsuit, a coupling that re-emerges in every outfit of the collection; determining the choice of materials and abstraction from their common use: everything that is technical is paired with classical and everything that has not yet been washed can be thrown into water, wringing, dyeing and re-dying, discoloring and tearing.
Starting from surfwear, a long series of bootleg prints, fictitious and semi-ironic brands describe the Adriatic Riviera and its beaches, from the Lido of Venice to the hamlets of Rimini.”
annabiotti@gmail.com/

Photogaphs by Francesca Occhi – courtesy of IUAV

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Anna Lena Biotti – Learning From Riviera

Silvia Schirinzi, Sabina Cioffi and Gianni Serra

Francesca Sarti

Anna Ferrari

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Kiko - Make-up

Dusty Ray and Julian Richards, Anna Morassutti and Aldrin Shumba

Silvana Dainese and Roberto De Feo

Uma Wang, Monica Massella and Elda Danese

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Annalisa Cescon – Signora Mia

“My lady is a vision. The ironic vision of the Italian province and its elegant ladies in suits. The project is made up of eight episodes that correspond to eight or nearly to, eight suits. Each one investigates a stereotype, a recurring theme, and a character. There is the delicate lady who is lost in the floral upholstery of her living room, with flowers that are actually buds of language and smirks, and there is a showy lady in printed houndstooth. The furred overwhelming lady whose fake fur is made-up by assembling many cymoses. The cat loving lady, confused by the jacquard pattern of her knitwear set. The most discreet lady with her pleated denim skirt. The lady in yellow with the fake checkered suit and the animal print lady. Finally the jeweled lady in a woolen suit.”
annalisacescon@libero.it/

Photogaphs by Francesca Occhi – courtesy of IUAV

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Annalisa Cescon – Signora Mia

Saul Marcadent

Gabriel Logar, Christian Anklin and Piccola

Maria and Ema Bonifacic

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Giulia Stefanini – Innesti

“Venice, Autumn 2015, time lost while waiting for a vaporetto. Everything is gray except for the unremitting movement of algae, brilliant green filaments covering the underwater surfaces. The project starts from here: a continuous evolution that finds its focus in textile experimentation. Elements that arise directly in the machine are multiplied by the use of different yarns such as mohair and nylon that go to wrap around raw cotton cloth. Canvas and technical fabrics re-create the architectural and structural appearance. Clutches of fabrics ennoble and connects discarded items such as sheepskin and men's shirts.”
giulia.stefanini@hotmail.com/

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Giulia Stefanini – Innesti

Ethel Lotto and Anthony Knight

Maria Cristina Cerulli, Manuele Scapin and Alessandra Vaccari

Lionella Caprioli and Shirin

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Valentina Olivetti - Le Temps Revient

“A flower, an upholstery, a dress, an armchair. I focused my attention on details of black and white photographs and I inserted color, so much color, to tell story in a collection. The men’s waistcoat is integrated into a female dress. A boxer short is decorated with a ruffle around the waist. A long coat contrasts with the lightness of the cropped top and the under-skirt. The fabrics emphasize the abundance of colors and prints, ranging from quilted velvet, to padded, cotton jersey, silk voile, wavy pleats, Alcantara, wool blends and cashmere.”
val.olivetti@gmail.com/