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.
Maria 2025: Tribute to Casanova
Climax of the events related to the Festa delle Marie is the proclamation of the Maria of the year. Elena Sofia Cesca wore a creation by Francesco on the stage in Piazza San Marco. What makes each work of Briggi unique is the union of creativity, sartorial knowledge and manual skill. This is why each dress is different: knowing how to use any material the only limit is his imagination! The dress for the Maria 2025 Carnival sums up the soul of Giacomo Casanova. A free man: free to love, to learn, to study, to have fun while remaining a child but at the same time creating the myth of the greatest of seducers. A light blue dress, like the one used for the escape from the Piombi, is the union between a male jacket and a female dress, to underline his love for the feminine that he never humiliated or exploited, freeing his side of aesthete who also enjoyed the pleasure of seduction. A complex man, who thanks to Francesco Briggi came back to life in a dress that gave light to Piazza San Marco.
