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‘Delphos’ dress  1910.1920 , Mariano Fortuny © L. Degrâces et P. Ladet / Galliera / Roger-Viollet Fortuny Dress, Fortuny Delphos, Fortuny Pleats, Mariano Fortuny, Isadora Duncan, Dress Name, Spanish Fashion, Natalia Vodianova, 20th Century Fashion

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…

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Fortuny Pleats, Fortuny Fabric, Mariano Fortuny, Paul Poiret, Emerging Designers Fashion, Jean Patou, Black Beards, Louise Brooks, Jeanne Lanvin

Am I the only one who didn't know the dazzling Venetian fashion and textile wizard, the Prince of Pleats, the Virtuoso of Velvet, wasn't even Italian, let alone Venetian? He was born Mariano Fortuny* y Madrazo in 1871, of a long line of artists, curators and collectors in the capital and last stronghold of Spain's Moorish…

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