Sacred & Profane

When creativities meet, beautiful collaborations are born. Years ago, Samantha Peluso and her academy created special make-ups for exceptional models: the Maries. In this way, the young students were given the opportunity to experiment, to test themselves, to create looks studied and developed by the teacher and made to the best of their ability. This year, the make-up’s theme was a sort of frame around the face within which, like a work of art, a make-up was created inspired by the dress that the girl would wear. For the first time, the 12 Maries, wore different dresses, all from the 1700s in honor of the Carnival theme. The make-up, although personalized, had some details that were the same for all of them. In this way, the tradition that all the Maries were the same was respected, so that they felt like a single group, but at the same time, as usual, their individual characteristics could emerge. Thanks to the trust placed in the project by Mariagrazia Bortolato, we saw youngs trusting youngs under the watchful and competent gaze of Francesco Briggi and Samantha Peluso, and the unforgettable hairstyles created by Maria Antoci of Mary hair stylist.

Fashion make history!

Here is the presentation of a beautiful project linked to the Venetian museum of the history of costume, fabric and perfume. Following the scientific program of the exhibition which places Venetian fashion from the 1700s as focus of the exhibition, we were asked to create two costumes, one for women and one for men from the mid-1700s, which would allow us to show how many and what were the pieces that “built” a dress, in order to describe the entire society

For the women’s dress it was decided to reproduce an “andrienne” or “andriè” as it was called in Venice, with the predisposition to transform it into a “polonaise”, or into a “retroussée dans les poches”.

A mid-century model was also chosen for men, therefore with a fairly long but contoured and close-fitting waistcoat, a long jacket with large hand guards, and typical mid-century trousers.

On the recommendation of the MUVE teaching office, the costumes were made of white cotton, the outermost part in a coarse cotton canvas, while fine cotton was used inside as a lining. For the poplin shirts, always white, to allow the diversity of the use of the fabric to be shown without distracting the creation of the same with different colors and finishes.