Mariano fortuny

Sandy Schrier owns 15,000 of the most significant garments of the century. She has never worn one.

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…

Am I the only one who didn’t know the dazzling Venetian fashion and textile wizard, the Prince of Pleats, the Virtuoso of Velvet, wasn’t even Italian, let alone Venetian? He was born Ma…

Fortuny on Instagram: “#MARIANOFORTUNY | Almost 150 years have passed since the birth of Mariano Fortuny, on May 11th 1871, yet his works and inventions continue…”

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Pleated silk gown trimmed at top edge of SLV, SS & peplos hem w/ striped Murano glass beads, original bronze stenciled silk satin belt signed on back at loop closure, signed tape at interior underarm "Fortuny depose Made in Italy”, original box w/ sticker “Mariano Fortuny, Venise”,

‘Delphos’, dress, permanently pleated silk, designed by Henriette Nigrin, possibly with Mariano Fortuny, for Mariano Fortuny, Venice, Italy, retailed by Babani in Paris, France, ca. 1920, pale green silk dress with a matching cord, intermixed with silver, threaded through worked eyelets, and trimmed at the ends with Venetian faience beads, ribbons, belonged to Eleonora Duse

Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (Spanish, active Italy, 1871–1949)