THE “BRAVO PORTRAITS” BY ALDO FALLAI ON DISPLAY

07/04/2013

He has been around in Milan, Paris, London and Shanghai looking at faces, looks and expressions, trying to capture the passion burning in them in the corridors of the different seats of the Istituto Marangoni. The exhibition “Bravo portraits” gathers sixty photographs by maestro Aldo Fallai, who is renowned for his editorials published in glossy magazines all over the world and for the unforgettable advertising campaigns for Giorgio Armani, to whom he has been bound by a great friendship since 1943.

After Shanghai and Paris, the exhibition will arrive in Milan and will be hosted by Fabbrica del Vapore from July 4th to July 31st. The exhibition narrates the passion of young fashion and design students as well as the multicultural reality represented by Istituto Marangoni. In 1953, Giulio Marangoni founded the first Milanese fashion school, that has been training 4 generations of designers, with big names like Franco Moschino among them; sixty years on and with 3 seats abroad, the Institute continues to attract over 500 students, 40% of whom are foreigners.

“To me, taking photographs of such a multiethnic school as Istituto Marangoni has been like going back to my origins, because I also was a teacher at the Istituto d’Arte in Florence. After years of fashion and models, immersing myself into these faces of the future, that are so true and positive, has urged me to take unusual photographs”, commented Aldo Fallai on his work for the “Bravo portraits” exhibition, the title of which is meant to refer to the stimulus and encouragement given by Istituto Marangoni to its students, and that also the whole fashion system gives to young people.

Andrea Vigneri