Luxury Vintage Workshop® show at the Creativity
Expo “Fabriano
Maker City”
(AN - Marche Region, Italy)
will
host 5 different thematic exhibiting areas which will be recognizable by special
signposts and posters. Each theme will bear a different symbol and colour: “Arts & Crafts” (red colour) located at the Loggiato of
St. Francis church, Oratorio d. Carità hosting a special lounge laboratory with
live practical demonstrations and tutorials and at the Piazza del Comune
(Municipality main square); “Smart Ability” (orange colour) at the
Monumental Complex San Domenico with several collateral events and workshops
dedicated to the paper handcrafts; “Art & Events” (yellow colour) at the Theatre Gentile, Atrio Chiavelli and Loggiato
Palazzo Vescovile; “Street Food” (light green) located at
Piazza del Podestà and Piazza Amedeo di Savoia with cooking shows and classes;
“Gourmet food & wine” with the local regional cuisine specialties (dark
green colour) at the Chiostro di San Venanzio with cake design, cooking shows
and gourmet laboratories with the special guest participation by the worldwide
famous top chef Gualtiero Marchesi...
All the
events and exhibitions have been conceived in order to emphasize the makers
ability and traditions as well as the manufacturing excellences of this city
and its surrounding territory.
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| Fabriano Creativity Expo main events (see further below for the whole activities programme) |
During the
whole 4-days lasting Creativity Expo, as highlight of the so
called exhibition area “Arts & Events”, the Italian cultural Association of
the Vintage Fashion Researchers will hold a special
exhibition of one-of-a-kind period purses and shoes at the Foyer of the Gentile Theatre in Fabriano, Around 50 rare highly
collectable and unique exemplars dated back to the 40’s to the early ‘80’s will
be displayed on an amazing labyrinth of Plexiglas showcases in the Foyer of the
antique Teatro Gentile, on Via
Gentile da Fabriano, 60044 Fabriano (Ancona) from the 4th
to the 7th of September (opening times: Thursday, Friday and
Saturday: 5pm through to 11pm; Sunday 10am to 11pm).
All the
exemplars have been especially selected and extracted from the private
collection "Sculptures to Wear" by A.Eupani and
from the Vintage Workshop® Accessories Archives of Vicenza, Italy,
available for rentals and consultation for the fashion designers and product
managers of the international
Ready-to-Wear and High Fashion companies.
The luxury concept will be explained under
different aspects: the aesthetics pondering, the style beauty, the handcrafted
components, the heritage of past ages, the design & creativity assets, the
top quality stands of both manufacture and materials, the considerable wealth
of detail.
Some of the
leading early fashion accessories brands as seen at their apex: Emilio Pucci, Roberta di Camerino, Gucci, Ferragamo, Cesare
Piccini and others for Italy, Hermès, Chanel and Céline for France, Rialto,
Wilardy, Llewellyn, Patricia of Miami, Maxim’s, Myles, Rosenfeld and others for
the Unites States as first examples of high creativity in the ‘40’s and ‘50’s
at the time of the early creations of futuristic purses in Bakelite and
Lucite).
Luxury Vintage photo gallery preview:
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| antique purse (Vintage Workshop®Archives) |
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| America purse '50's (Vintage Workshop®Archives) |
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| bakelite purse '40's Collection Sculptures to Wear |
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| bakelite purse late '40's Collection Sculptures to Wear |
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| Lucite purse with underglass embroidery |
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| Roberta di Camerino (Vintage Workshop Archives) |
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| Reptyle purse (Vintage Workshop Archives) |
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| Roberta di Camerino (Vintage Workshop Archives) |
The Vintage exhibition will be accented and complemented with the original contemporary crafts garments by the dressmakers’ clothing companies Memory’s Ltd. and Sartoria Luca Paolorossi.
The interior design installation and the special lighting system, with cold led lights due to the peculiar microclimate necessary to especially preserve some of the handbags made in pre-plastic materials, has been projected by the Eng. Ed. Archt. Francesco Sforza.
Special thanks to: the
Danish artist Jacob
Sibbern for the drawing art lettering of the Luxury Vintage logo of the
exhibition.
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| poster Luxury Vintage by VintageWorkshop® |
The conceiver of the Vintage exhibition organizing Association (Vintage Workshop® www.vintageworkshop.it), Angela Eupani, will be guest and spokeswoman at the press conference and forum of the creativity with title “Creativity and beauty as a medium for the development of the excellencies of the territory and tourism” co-ordinated and patronized by the University of Camerino, with live broadcasting by the channels “Radio Gold” and “Radio Blu”.
