Fortuny dress

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…

Peplos Mariano Fortuny, 1935 The Philadelphia Museum of Art

This post about the Manus x Machina exhibit at the Met focuses on the garments with pleats by Dior, Fortuny, Issey Miyake, Madame Gres and more.

'Portrait of a muse' painting by Mariano Fortuny, 1935 Portrait of Henriette Fortuny in Pompeian costume with a Delphos dress and Knossos scarf designed by Mariano Fortuny, printed with geometric, asymmetrical patterns and motifs inspired by Cycladic art The artistic legacy of Mariano Fortuny The Fortuny museum in San Marco, Venice, was instigated in 1956 by Henriette Fortuny, the Parisian wife and muse of Mariano Fortuny (1871-1949) . He was born in Granada, Spain where both his father and…

If you follow me on Instagram you already saw, that I finished my Delphos quite some time ago, but I just hadn’t found the time to write a blog post. I also redid my website and I’m currently preparing my new website which will be linked to my future web-shop, since I plan to start …

Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper. February – May 2019. Dresses intricately crafted out of paper by Belgian artist and sculptor Isabelle de Borchgrave.

The greatest success of the Fortuny Atelier was the creation of the Delphos gown in 1909, an iconic dress, a landmark in the history of fashion.

Mariano Fortuny and the Delphos dress Mariano Fortuny was spanish but nowadays he’s most known for the time when he lived in venice in italy. He was an artist, architect and inventor and not, like many sources say, a fashion designer. He did not see the dresses as fashion, but more as a form of …