Category Archives: Mariano Fortuny
Stories
Tina Chow and her love for Fortuny dresses.
Tina Chow was an American model, couture collector and jewellery designer who was considered an [...]
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Mariano Fortuny Techniques
Fortuny’s plissé: characteristics and wonders of the most famous pleats in the world
A method already present in Ancient Egypt, the plissé was revolutionized and consecrated as a [...]
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Mariano Fortuny and Gabriele D’Annunzio: a friendship in Venice
There are many people that Mariano Fortuny met in his life, that he influenced and [...]
Sep
Fortuny’s plissé: characteristics and wonders of the most famous pleats in the world
A method already present in Ancient Egypt, the plissé was revolutionized and consecrated as a [...]
Aug
The streamlined looks of Mariano Fortuny and Issey Miyake
The question if haute couture should respond to artistic criteria or to practicality has hovered [...]
Oct
Henriette: the Muse
Adèle Henriette Elisabeth Nigrin was born on October 4th 1877 in Fontainebleau, where she lived [...]
Feb
The Fortuny Dome: a revolution in the theatre
For Mariano Fortuny light was an absolute vocation, the leitmotif of his artistic eclecticism, the [...]
Jan
Mariano Fortuny’s youth among art and inventions
Throughout the early 1890s Mariano Fortuny dedicated himself to a cycle of paintings and engravings [...]
Dec
From Granada to Venice: Mariano Fortuny’s early years
Mariano Buenaventura Isabel Federico Mamerto Cecilio de la Santísima Trinidad was born on 11 May [...]
Oct