Il Manto e la Pelle (The Mantle and the Skin)

Italy, 1973. Director Nanni Strada.

Presented at the XV Milan Triennale (1973), the film explained and promoted Nanni Strada’s new system of ‘dressing design’: geometric, two-dimensional, compressible clothes assembled with futuristic stitching (the Mantle series) and tight tubular garments without seams – a seamless suit (the Skin series).

Past screenings

Palazzo Grassi Celebrates 10 Years of the Fashion in Film Festival – Venice
Thursday 25 January 2018, 16:00 | Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi

This workshop considers the key role that film played in making visible the radical anti-consumerist ideals of the 1970s Italian design scene. Against this background, the workshop focuses on Nanni Strada’s pioneering film Il Manto e la Pelle (The Mantle and the Skin) and provides a unique opportunity to meet the designer herself.

Total running time: c. 100min. With introduction, screening and post-screening discussion.