Anna Chancellor on Mariano Fortuny and the Delphos Gown

An insight into the genius that was Mariano Fortuny and how the Delpohs gown was created.

[@angelacliffe8028]

Thank you Anna for talking about this quite under-discovered designer. Thanks to Valentino's SS16 Haute Couture collection, hopefully a bit better known.

[@KemptonLam]

Thanks for sharing the video. Very cool! I'm thrilled to learn that the exhibition "Fortuny, a Spaniard in Venice" is happening at Palais Galliera from October 4th, 2017 - Junuary 7th, 2018. I find these words from an Oct 2017 Vogue article "The Work of Mariano Fortuny Is Celebrated-And Reimagined-At the Palais Galliera" rather moving. Let me quote, "Though months in the planning, the “Fortuny, a Spaniard in Venice,” speaks to current issues beyond fashion. Countering a tide of xenophobia, it reminds us dream(er)s can’t be contained. Riad jokes that “Fortuny is this quintessentially Italian company that’s never been owned by an Italian.” (It passed from the Spanish-born founder to the American Elsie McNeill Lee, later Countess Elsie Lee Gozzi, and then to the Egyptian-born Maged Riad.) Scholar Silvia Bañaraes has described the expatriate Nigrin as “French by nationality, Spanish by marriage, and perhaps Venetian at heart.” The Fortuny show is a reminder that art carries no passport and pushes boundaries-by design."

[@astigmatica1]

Thanks to share his genius and art 🌹❤️

[@alinariz7883]

A true genius.

[@meierstudio]

GREAT LITTLE VIDEO...

[@TheFiown]

All these original gorgeous museum piecesstuffed into a suitcase ?

[@Apollo_Blaze]

Exactly....they need to be displayed and be cared for...it is amazing they have not started to fall apart...the world should be seeing and enjoying them.

[@cezartb]

When you go to the opera, or to Scuola di San Rocco, Fortuny lamps light are on. The museum has some of the best temporary art shows during the Biennale. In one way or anothe, the city is tied to his art.

[@johnleake5657]

What has this been excerpted from?

[@1aliveandwell]

Did his wife still manage and make clothing after Mariano passed? Read she died in 66.