In the series "They were doing fashion tech ahead of their time" let’s pay homage, on this Easter Monday, to the costume designer Danilo Donati, inventor in 1972 of the first luminous mitres and chasubles in the history of Italian cinema.

By Ludmilla intravaia

Let’s celebrate Easter and the victory of life over death, by resurrecting our remembrance of two Italian artists, the director Federico Fellini, who died in 1993, at the age of 73 and his favorite costume designer Danilo Donati, who left us in 2001, when he was 75 years old. If Donati, who was also set decorator, has dedicated his existence to the realization of the wildest dreams of filmmakers like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Zeffirelli or Roberto Benigni, it is his collaboration with Fellini in 1972 on the movie Roma that is worth a Boudoir Numérique tribute. More exactly his ecclesiastical parade inspired  by the divine fashion tech spirit with two liturgical garments composed of light-up mitres and chasubles as heavenly as baroque (images ci-dessous : ©Ultra Film/Les Artistes Associés).

So, do as his eminence, get comfy in your velvet sofa, take a light refreshment and reach the seven heavens while enjoying the exuberance of the priests, nuns and cardinals’ vestments in their shimmering fabrics and audacious cuts. In the final, don’t miss the Pope replacing the traditional bride as the Pontifex maximus of Fellini’s fashion show.

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