Editing Sample
MARRAS TEXT PANEL
ORIGINAL
Raised among the scraps and swatches of his father’s tailor shop, Marras is not afraid to push fabrics to their limits in order to serve his artistic vision. His couture debut in 1996 paid homage to the traditions of the past, while at the same time incorporating the most modern of cuts and textures. The evocativeness, the mystery, and the magic of Shakespeare’s theater inspired Marras’s costumes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2008. Marras envisioned characters who seem to exist in a timeless zone, capturing the fantasy of this classic play.
EDITS
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Raised among the scraps and swatches of his father’s tailor shop, Antonio Marras, a master of textiles, is not afraid to push fabrics to their limits in order to serve his artistic vision. How fitting, then, that his couture debut in 1996 paid homage to the traditions of the past, while at the same time incorporating the most modern of cuts and textures.
The evocativeness, the mystery, and the magic, the evocativeness of Shakespeare’s theater inspired Marras’s costumes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2008. Marras envisioned characters who seem to exist in a timeless zone, [[The added text to follow derives from your own, taken from a portion cut from elsewhere. Okay? I wanted to exemplify his use of fabric.]] From the dark tulle of fairies to the crinkled white gauze of lovers, from tailcoats to tunics to T-shirts — Marras capturing captured the fantasy of this classic play with stylized costumes that evoke the visionary world of the text.
FINAL
Raised among the scraps and swatches of his father’s tailor shop, Antonio Marras, a master of textiles, is not afraid to push fabrics to their limits to serve his artistic vision. How fitting, then, that his couture debut in 1996 paid homage to the traditions of the past while at the same time incorporating the most modern of cuts and textures.
The mystery, the magic, the evocativeness of Shakespeare’s theater inspired Marras’s costumes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2008. From the dark tulle of fairies to the crinkled white gauze of lovers, from tailcoats to tunics to T-shirts — Marras captured the fantasy of this classic play with stylized costumes that evoke the visionary world of the text.
CREDIT
The edited version appeared as a text panel in the fashion exhibit Teatro alla Moda: Theater in Fashion at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 14 October 2011-18 March 2012, Beverly Hills, California.
I also edited the full-color catalogue: Teatro alla Moda: Theater in Fashion, hardcover, 182 pages, 2011.
Antonio Marras, Design sketches
Mixed media on paper, 11.6 X 16.7 in. (29.5 x 42.5 cm.)
Milan, Antonio Marras S.p.A.
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