Fashion and dance, dress and movement in dialogue during the days in which Milan reopened to events with the presence of the public for the men’s fashion shows. The scenography was lent by seven Milanese places symbol of culture and sharing – closed due to the pandemic and now protagonists of the shooting – to create a video performance with eleven collections of theses of theEuropean Institute of Design, made by the best graduates in Fashion Design in the year 2020/21.
In the fashion film entitled PÓST IED Before the 2021 Show, presented at Milano Moda Uomo with the creative direction of Olivia Spinelli and directed by Nicola Garzetti, the students’ collections came to life in the fashion-dance union and in the human body, a communicative vector of life and restart.
From the Arena to the Mysterious Baths
The performers of Accademia Kataklò (directed by Giulia Staccioli and Vito Cassano) gave expression to the outfits, giving shape to narrative paintings hosted by places such as the Gianni Brera Civic Arena, the Mysterious Baths and the Franco Parenti Theater, the Circolo Arci Bellezza, the DanceHaus Susanna Beltrami school, the Cozzi Pool – Milanosport, the Chiesa Rossa Library – Milan Library System. The soundtrack was composed by the sound designers Cosma Castellucci, Mattia Liciotti and Riccardo Santalucia (Alumni Ied Milano).
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Waking up with an acrobatic dance step
«With the PÓST project and with the return to an event in presence at Milano Moda Uomo we have brought attention back to the essential value of physicality, after all the privations of affection, contacts and sharing experienced in over a year. Showing clothes disconnected from real people and places that can inhabit them today would be like pretending that nothing has happened – comments Olivia Spinelli, coordinator and creative director of Ied Moda Milano -. Doing this together with the Kataklò Academy was incredible: we needed to wake up, at a pace of (acro) dance “
Dance and the three-dimensional dimension
«When a dress comes into contact with a dancer’s body, it comes to life and becomes an extension of his muscles and his communicative message. Become the partner to dance with, the companion to be valued – comments Giulia Staccioli, artistic director of Accademia Kataklò (first training and professional start-up school dedicated to physical theatre) and founder of the company Kataklò Athletic Dance Theater. Overcoming the concept of ethereal beauty, dance offers fashion a material and communicative three-dimensionality, always effective because it is never equal to itself ».
The undergraduates authors of the fashion film
The authors of the 11 graded collections featured in the fashion film were the designers: Alexandru Basalic, Luca Bianco, Dara Silva Bulleri, Susanna Dalgrosso, Elia Docente, Elena Gregori, Andrea Annarita Mazza, Alessia Monachino, Gaetano Stea, Marco Terenzi, Anna Vedovelli. Wearing them are the student performers of the professional courses of Kataklò Gian Mattia Baldan, Niccolò Basile, Chloé Bertini, Giulio Caravatti, Federica Cuzzaniti, Giorgia Faggionato, Lucio Failla, Naomi Gino Grillo, Sabrina Mastrorocco, Luis Miguel Nuñez, Benedetta Terracciano, Ginevra Tomella, with the very young Raoul Turri (student of the courses for children) and the extraordinary participation of a four-legged performer, the great dane Talitha Cum.