High fashion at the Infantry Historical Museum

13/07/14

"Progetto 100" inaugurated yesterday, an event that sees young designers from high fashion who until 16 July, exhibit their creations in a prestigious location, the Historical Infantry Museum of Rome.

The leitmotiv of the collections present in the museum spaces are the colors of our flag, green, white and red, representing national pride.

The clothes and accessories can be admired, for four days, together with the military relics of the first great war, which this year celebrates its hundredth anniversary.

In the spectacular Roman apse of the basilica hall of the Temple of Venus and Cupidine, located inside the museum area, a series of mannequins, with the most significant sartorial creations of the exhibition, rigorously in the color of the tricolor, were positioned on the stage, where the stylists took turns explaining their creations.

The director of the museum, Colonel Rino Postiglioni, made it possible to organize the project and did the honors.

Numerous performances were held in the museum garden, mannequins located everywhere where the large audience was able to admire, live, the execution of "handmade" creations, from the clothes of the designer Danilo Attardi to the weaving and embroidery course , of the High Fashion Embroidery School, while the artist Roberto Di Costanzo drew the scenery of the temple in ink.

The project was conceived by fashion producer Antonio Falanga and was carried out in collaboration with the Italian Army.

Monica Palermo