The clothes of dreams. The Italian school of costume designers for film

Italian excellence. Art art. That costume, one of the artists and artisans who have made great cinema, Italian and international.
By the divas of silent, when Italian cinema, at the dawn, excelled in the world, at Big Beauty, able to give back to our cinema a new Oscar.
By Lyda Borelli - protagonist and author of the Satanic Rhapsody in unparalleled choices for clothes that have determined an entire aesthetic imagination - Tony Servillo, emblem of a contemporary eclecticism manifested through those cuts and the colors of clothes everywhere already become a cult.
But the Oscars are also those of the founder Piero Tosi (Lifetime, in 2013) and Danilo Donati (in 1969 for Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet and in 1977 for Fellini's Casanova), Milena Canonero (three, the first with Stanley Kubrick for Barry Lyndon, then for Chariots of Fire and in recent years for Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola), Gabriella Pescucci (to work with Martin Scorsese for The Age of Innocence), figures that will guide us to the discovery of an exhibition that wants to overcome the stereotype of the gallery of clothes, to bring out the sense of a school, an Italian artisan tradition that has made great films, one of the designers of costumes and who then made them, houses as Tirelli, Peruzzi, Gattinoni, Property, Annamode, Attolini.
The clothes of dreams. The Italian school of costumes for film, is the title of this exhibition, promoted by Roma Capitale Department of Culture, Creativity and Artistic Promotion-Superintendent Capitolina by organizing Zètema Culture Project, that the Bologna Cinematheque and Equa Camilla Morabito realize from 17 January to 22 March at the Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi. Headquarters and exceptional location, Thanks to its magnificent staircase, just for the great beauty, with whose paintings, the exhibition enters into a dialogue between the arts cross.
With a project lighting layout entrusted to Luca Bigazzi, among the most popular directors of photography on the contemporary scene, The clothes of dreams will collect over 100 original clothes, dozens of sketches and a selection of objects, among which is the unique example of the press that a master like Danilo Donati built to fashion costumes Oedipus Rex by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
A dual path imagined, on the one hand, along the span of a century, whose stages are marked by costume (Vittorio Novarese, Gino Sensani, Maria de Matteis, But Tosi, Piero Gherardi, Danilo Donati, Milena Canonero, Gabriella Pescucci, Maurizio Millenotti); the other side, in search of work in the costume masterpieces of cinema history thanks to their clothes are etched in the memory of generations and generations: Marriage Italian Style by Vittorio De Sica in The tenth victim of Elio Petri, from Casanova di Federico Fellini to Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola, up to the great beauty of Paolo Sorrentino and Young Fabulous Mario Martone.
The clothes of dreams
The Italian school of costume designers for film
from 17 January to 22 March 2015
Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi
P.zza Navona 2
P.zza S.Pantaleo 10
Rome
Tuesday - Sunday, hours 10 – 20