Popy Moreni Black Dress with Leather Details
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Popy Moreni Black Dress with Leather Details
About the Item
About Ms. Moreni:
Born: Annalisa Moreni in Turin, Italy, 3 December 1947.
Education: Istituto Statale d'Arte, Moda e Costume, Turin, 1961-64.
Career: Moved to Paris, 1964; design assistant to Maïmé Arnaudin, 1964; designer in Arnaudin's Mafia design studio, Paris, 1965-67, and in Promostyl, Paris, 1967-73; designer, Timmi, 1972; established own design and consulting office (working for Rhone-Poulenc Textile and Rasurel), from 1973; first boutique opened, Paris, 1976; first fashion collection, 1980; first creations for Swiss catalogues, 1981; ready-to-wear licensed, from 1982...
Exhibitions:Popy Moreni, Collerettes x 13, Galerie des Femmes, Paris, 1985; Les Années 80, Musée des Arts de la Mode, Paris, 1989-90; Mode et Liberté, Musée des Arts de la Mode, Paris, 1992.
Awards: Named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1986.
Popy Moreni is an Italian designer working in Paris who has managed to combine distinctive style elements from both countries— a strong Italian sense of color and coordination, with a chic French practicality. She was born into an artistic family in Turin, Italy; her mother was a sculptor and her father a painter. She studied costume and design in Italy at L'Istituto Statale d'Arte, Moda e Costume, then moved to Paris at 17 to pursue a career in fashion. Her first job was at Mafia, the design studio of Maïmé Arnaudin; next she worked for the Promostyl Organization and the Italian firm Timmi until 1972.
She opened her own design studio in 1973 and worked on consultancies with a range of clients that included Rhone-Poulenc Textile and Rasurel. In 1980 she showed her first collection on the catwalk. She quickly became known for her witty, carefree clothes. A taste for theatricality and the baroque gave her collections the recurrent theme of commedia dell'arte with harlequin prints and jagged-cut details, satin capes and Pierrot collars, all translated into inventive sportswear shapes. She has also been inspired from her artistic heritage, looking to abstract painters like Jackson Pollock and Hans Hartung when designing and choosing prints.
By 1985 the collections had grown in size and breadth, incorporating such details as petal shapes, corollas, and plush velvets. More recent innovations were oversize crisp white cotton shirts decorated with ruffled cuffs and necklines. Cheeky sleeveless striped suits again decorated with a huge ruff collar of satin, plus fun linen suits, printed with an asymmetric leaf detail. Her collection for autumn-winter 1993-94 showed a stark paring down of her carefree theatricality, with severe charcoal and black fit-and-flare dresses with unusual details like tiny cap sleeves or asymmetrical seaming. Accessory details like fingerless gloves, black nail polish, and a no-make-up look contributed to the austerity.
Expansion of the Moreni business began with the opening of her first boutique in the Les Halles district of Paris in 1976...She also developed a distinctive eveningwear line, as well as hat, shoe, and jewelry ranges. Of particular interest were her plastic shoes dyed to bright colors.
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- Designer:Popy Moreni
- Dimensions:Marked Size: 38 (EU)
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Material Notes:Wool, Leather, Drawstring.
- Condition:Excellent.
- Seller Location:Los Angeles, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: AU111022169478
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