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I loved Romeo Gigli! I got my degree in one of his creation a beautiful layered ballerina dressed! Orange, dark red and blush. I think his style is absolutely classic and evergreen as Egon Shiele or Degas! following the idea to dress as ballerina his outfits are very much a inspiration!! Romeo Gigli was born into a family of antiquarian booksellers with a collection of more than twenty thousand volumes from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The region of Faenza has a rich cultural and historical heritage. All his references come alive and the mix between the legend, the history, the folk and the dream make him unique! His woman is a ballerina, but also a fairy, a Victorian boy, or a Mongolian princess! Gigli studied architecture in Florence. At the end of the 1970s, after ten years spent traveling around the world, during which time he collected objects, In 1979 he went to New York, where Pietro Dimitri, a tailor who made custom clothing for men, asked Gigli to design his first woman collection. While all the fashion was in padded shoulders and aggressive outfits, he turned away from the hard-edged contours that were then prevalent and based his designs on classic proportions, which he updated, sometimes radically. He made use of contrast and asymmetry and combined simplicity with luxurious fabrics, sometimes pairing smaller, microlength designs with long, full garments. He made use of unusual combinations of colors, such as sand and pink, dark blues, verdigris, saffron, red, and gold, and of fabrics, such as stretch linen, silk, chiffon, cotton gauze, wool, and cashmere. And he was one of the first designers to use Lycra. The Gigli woman is ethereal and silent, fragile and poetic; her conical silhouette, with its long, narrow sleeves and layered overcoats, jackets, and scarves, emphasizes the sensuality of a woman's arms and shoulders, her gestures and bearing, such as a ballerina!

Is emotional, is real, is cruel, is thoughtful.... In the piece, which dates from 2005, Chouinard's dancers have been transformed by the addition of crutches, walking frames and prostheses. Naked except for a typically Chouinardian assortment of S&M harnesses, nipple caps and pointe shoes, they limp, swing and scoot across the stage to hashed-up Bach and a manipulated recording of a spoken commentary by the pianist Glenn Gould. The result resembles a swingers' party in a surgical appliance store, hosted by a DJ with late-stage Parkinson's disease. A woman with miniature crutches drags herself about like a fish, gagging on a microphone; two women sharing a single leg brace perform a diagonal of mutant balletic leg lifts; a couple copulate while swinging from a harness.

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