Fortuny dress

Marion Fortuny gold Delphos dress, 1910s; coat is white silk taffeta stenciled with Japanese motifs with pink silk taffeta padded hem and lining. Kyoto Costume Institute #BabilandBijouMuseContest

Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (Spanish, active Italy, 1871–1949)

A Spanish artist living in Venice, Mariano Fortuny began designing printed fabrics in 1906. In work strongly influenced by antiquity, he emphasised the fluidity of garments with no waistline, creating sober, timeless, vertical pieces perfectly adapted to revealing the forms of the body. Registered in Fortuny's name in 1909, his emblematic ‘Delphos’ dress—named after the Charioteer of Delphi—took its inspiration from the chiton, the long woollen Greek tunic, and reflects the craze for Greece…

Working on some experiments on Fortuny Delphos gowns.

Its goods were found in the homes of Greta Garbo and Babe Paley

Fortuny e Caramba In the last of my Fortuny series I bring you my favorite, his silk velvet. Fortuny grew up around textiles as bot...

How and where I found a diamond in the rough, Mariano Fortuny delphos micro pleated gown. Thanks to my husbands beginers luck.

One evening in late November, I went to the opening of the Fortuny y Madrazo: An Artistic Legacy opening at the Queen Sofia Institute. Photos are by Andrea Cairone for RARE vintage The QSSI has in partnership with its chairman, Oscar de le Renta, begun an annual costume exhibit which in just three years has become a must see on the fall schedule of shows in New York. The first exhibit I saw at the QSSI was the beautiful and dramatic Balenciaga: Spanish Master curated by Hamish Bowles which…

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