[/column] [column grid=”2″ span=”1″]From the 13th to the 15th of September the fourth edition of Vintage Festival took place, by now it is a fixed meeting for Padova city and it is able to attract more of people every year. This event isn’t only dedicated to the aged costumes, but also to the usage and to the habits of old ages, it is the result of an always deeper anthropological research.
You can find the banquets where people sell each kind of object, and on the first floor there are showings and settings prepared for this event. Showings distinguished themselves for originality and uniqueness in different sectors: the first was dedicated to the furnishing with Fifties and Sixties pieces, an union of some pearls of author, like the armchair of “Milord” by Marco Zanuso and the “Rocking Chair” by Charles Eames, close to some works created with recycled materials.
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[/column] [column grid=”2″ span=”1″]Though the “Small Museum 7,1 – Missoni”, there was a selection of some icon clothes of the famous Italian brand, and Diesel proposed t-shirts, coats and printings of Nineties, directly from their museum you could merge in the vintage fashion area. An important space, also if it was stable at the San Gaetano Palazzo Antinate, was used for the art showing dedicated to women artists of Hebraic origin who could claim a full creative and intellectual independence in the cultural tissue of the Nineties Italy; there were international artists like Alis Levi, Gabriella Oreffice, Antonietta Raphael, Lotte Frumi, Eva Fischer, Paola Consolo and Silvana Weiller.
[/column] [column grid=”2″ span=”1″]La vicina mostra “Arte e Viaggi” si snodava invece in un susseguirsi di decadi, espondendo i protagonisti dei primi viaggi tra ‘800 e ‘900: i bauli e gli articoli da viaggio disegnati e prodotti dalle più grandi maison. In campo fotografico eccelleva la mostra di uno dei più grandi street photographer: Jamel Shabazz. L’artista esponeva infatti al Festival alcuni tra i suoi scatti più significativi. Rimanendo in questo campo, abbiamo trovato molto azzeccato il progetto realizzato da Fosfeni Lab, i quali hanno ricreato una sala pose con un banco ottico Fatif, dei primi del ‘900. I clienti diventavano così i protagonisti di scatti in bianco e nero, sperimentando così la sensazione di poter essere immortalati in una fotografia d’epoca attraverso un vero cimelio.
[/column] [column grid=”2″ span=”1″]The close “Art and travel” showing moved in a set of decades, exposing the protagonists of the first travels in ‘800 and ‘900: portmanteaus and travel objects are drawn and products from the biggest maisons are presented. In the photograph sector, the most important showing was the one of the biggest street photographer: Jamel Shabazz. In fact, this artist exposed some of his most meaningful photos at the Festival . Staying in this sector, we think that was really interesting the project realized by Fosfeni Lab, who have created a pose hall with a Fatif optical bank, of the first years of Nineties. Customers became the protagonists of black and white photos, and in this way they could experience the sensation to be captured in an aged photo though a relic.
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[/column] [column grid=”2″ span=”1″]Vintage Festival like synonym of cool: a blaze of frills of skirts, round glasses, hair with every kind of shape and tattoos, or better, paintings, that try to color faded identities in a society where the research of uniqueness becomes necessary for many persons. Really, this Festival is able to recreate also this uniqueness: among objects and accessorizes that bring you in an other space-time, the Vintage guest is not only the spectator of old years and fashions, but he is magically brought by the thought to the symbol city of the vintage culture, Paris.
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Philippe Daverio ©Mattia Balsamini
Un ringraziamento a Marta Novella.
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[column grid=”2″ span=”1″]Until some years ago vintage was a phenomenon for some people, a phenomenon of collection, today it is transforming in a mass phenomenon that is not distinctive. The same argument has been discussed by one of the guests of the Festival, maybe the most anticipated, Philippe Daverio. He underlined how in this age, defined of “trash”, is so difficult finding diversity, distinction among persons; in particular he defined curiosity and gossip (not referred to shallow gossip) the fundamental motors of maieutics. Vintage is an old man that smells of remembered old in a nostalgic way and faded in black and white. He wants to evade for belonging to something different. Moving in the crowd of black small hats like the Charlie Chaplin’s one, we hope that Vintage could always be an elegant and stylish object of the past and not a label to apply to a new and brief wave of fashion.
Special thanks to Marta Novella.
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