MADDALENA MANGIALAVORIFASHION DESIGNER

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Maddalena MangialavoriDate of birth: 11/11/1987Nationality: Italian Home adress: via rolda 91, Solignano Nuovo (MO)Telephone: +39 333-1600371 +44 07741794237E-mail: maddalena@mangialavori.it maddymangialavori@me.com

EDUCATION:

• ‘11/’12LondonCollegeofFashion,MasterinFashionDesign Technology: Womenswear.

• ‘07/’10PolimodaInternationalInstituteFashionDesignandMarketing,threeyearsundergraduatedegreeinFashionDesign.

• ‘02/’07SeniorHighSchoolspecializedinclassicalstud-ies.

LANGUAGES:

• Italianmothertongue• Englishfluent• Frenchbasic• Germanbasic

TECHNICALSKILLSANDCOMPETENCES:GoodknowledgeoftheOfficepackage(Word,Excel,Pow-erpoint),Adobepackage(Photoshop,Illustrator,In-Design),Kaledostyleetc..

WORKEXPERIENCEINFASHION:

• 2010/2011,6monthsinternshipasfashiondesigner‘sassistantat“LaPerla”. • 2010,18-19nov,fashiontutorjuniorfortheproject“Creactivity”at“fondazionePiaggio”inPisa.

• 2010,5nov,Fashionrunwayshow“chicpiùchic”forYABFirenze.

• 2010,9jun,FashionrunwayshowforPolimoda.

• 2009,18sept,OrganizationandDirectionoftheFash-ionEvent“YoungleZoo”inFormigine.

• 2009,jul,Shortfilm“Revulsion”.

• 2008,3monthsinternshipforStellaMcCartney,Visu-al-Merchandisingoffice.

INTERESTS:Cinema,Theatre,Opera,Photography,ItalianLiterature,Philosophy,Psychology,Sociology…

REVULSIONREVOLUTIONEVOLUTION

unconscious mind ...in a box

Rorschach

inkblot test

This story tells about a girl, white dress and reb ribbon as bracelet. She is a dreamer, and like every dreamer she loves to spend some time alone with her thoughts.She's in a wheat field caressing the ears while she walks. She glimpses a white Rabbit running through the wheat and she starts to chase it.There's a door standing in the field. It appeared out of the blue.The Rabbit leads the girl to the door. She's surprised. She enters the door.The girl finds herself in a dark place, it'a a black cube. She's scared. She doesn't look like that girlanymore, her skin is white...like her hair, her eyes look like she's completely alienated, and they are filled with fear. She takes a few steps in the room. Some toys are on the ground. They hurt her feet.She wants to get out of there and there's a door on every side of the cube.She enters another door and she sees a little table. There's a tea set on it.Everything looks like it's set just for her.She searches another door.Finally she's in the third room. It looks empty, but wait!There's a little mirror. She sees her image reflected and she doesn't recognize herself.The mirror breaks into pieces.

This project starts with a Dream and it aims to dig deeper into its meaning.It's a trip into the unconscious. You know where it starts but you don't know where it ends. And when you see yourself for who you really are, with your lights and your shadows, you may not like what you find.I took inspiration from this feeling of inadequacy. I chose Edward scissorhands as icon and i was influenced by Re-becca Horn's Cornucopia in the creation of the silhouette.The Rorschach spots gave me the idea of working with the graphic effect of pied de poule

Rebecca Horn,Cornucopia

TUTANTWENTIES

For this project i took inspiration from the Roaring Twenties: a period of social, artistic, and cultural dynamism.After World War I, jazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined modern womanhood, Art Deco peaked, and women finally attained the political equality that they had so long been fighting for.The discovery of Tutankhamun’s thombs makes people curious about travelling and this works especially as a mind opener for society towards other cultures.Finally we see a black woman becoming a prominent figure.It’s Josephine Baker who found fame in her adopted homeland of France she was given such nicknames as the “Bronze Venus”, the “Black Pearl”, and the “Créole Goddess”. On October 2, 1925, she opened in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where she be-came an instant success for her erotic dancing and for appearing practically nude on stage.Her success coincided with the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, which gave birth to the term “Art Deco”, and also with a renewal of interest in ethnic forms of art, including African. Baker represented one aspect of this fashion.

The structure of Art Deco is based on mathematical geometric shapes. It was widely considered to be an eclectic form of elegant and stylish modernism.

In this Golden age a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to pet-ting parties. She was giddy and took risks. She was a flapper.The Flappers’ image consisted of drastic - to some, shocking - changes in women’s clothing and hair. Nearly every article of clothing was trimmed down and lightened in order to make movement easier.It is said that girls “parked” their corsets when they were to go danc-ing.For my collection I want to put together all these aspects of my re-search.

The pattern is created to work as two-dimensional on a three-dimen-sional body.

FASHION SKETCHES