14
I AM
SOFIA
Sofia counts and while she counts she changes. She is 28 and her life is only now
exploding, with lightness and terror. Sofia counts the days, and while counting she
pushes a name away, a dull sound that disturbs and leaves her grasping for air, if
pronounced out loud. E. was born on 7 June 1990. Beautiful, strong, healthy. E.
vanished definitively on November 14, 2018. In the middle, in that indefinite space
modeled on fiction, a young woman was forged. Sofia flies to Thailand and at the
other side of the world she tells us that everything has its beginning and that this is
her birth. And that now she can finally stop counting.
LITTLE BLACK DRESS
AFRICAN
CATWALK
October 1, 1926. In American Vogue a simple black dress is
featured for the first time alongside many flamboyant colored
garments and lavish embroideries. The Little Black Dress is
signed by Coco Chanel and it is praised by the renowned
magazine as the garment destined to become “a sort of
uniform for women all over the world.” With the hindsight of
ninety years the words of the American magazine sound like
a prophecy. In short order the Little Black Dress becomes
the very symbol of Chanel and a “must” in every woman’s
wardrobe. Today the LBD is more than ever a crucial point
for the fashion of the future. In Holland, the young designer
Iris Van Herpen abandons traditional fabrics and dabbles
with new materials. Pivoting between craftsmanship and
technology, her LBD made with a 3D printer, relaunches
Chanel’s challenge into the new millennium.
African Catwalk leads us through the intricacies of
South Africa, of its society, its contradictions and
its boundless energy through the revealing lens
of fashion. The South Africa Fashion week, set
in Johannesburg and one of the most prominent
fashion events in the African continent, is the
chosen backdrop to showcase this complex and
heterogeneous world.
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Adolfo Conti
Adolfo Conti
Doc Art
English, Italian
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Gianmarco Altieri
Paolo Pisacane
Todos Contentos y yo Tambien
Napoli in collaboration with RAI
English, Italian
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Silvia Luzi
Silvia Luzi
GA&A Productions
English, Italian
people & society
52’-26’
2016
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