A figure walking away down a long arcaded portico in morning light
Taglio 09 · plates 01–08

The portico, three mornings

Shot on 6, 7 and 8 March between 07:20 and 09:00, in the arcade two streets from the workroom, because it is the only place in Ravenna with four hundred metres of even light.

01 Coat SAVIO
02 Coat CLASSE
03 Suit CANDIANO
04 Jacket DARSENA
05 Coat PIALASSA
06 Shirt TEODORA
07 Jacket GALLA
08 Vest ALFONSINE
A black blazer worn open, the figure leaning into the light
Plate 01 · 07:24 · Coat SAVIO over shirt TEODORA
A figure gathering a length of black cloth, water behind
Plate 02 · 08:11 · Coat PIALASSA, oxblood silk-wool
Oxblood silk pooled and lit from one side, cropped to a bandCloth 09·F — silk-wool 320 g — 22 m, nine coats
On the shoot

Nobody smiles in a lookbook

We photograph the garment on the person who will wear it, not on a hire model, and we do not retouch a crease out of linen. If a shoulder reads badly in the picture it reads badly on the street, and we would rather re-cut it than fix it later.

Pale garments hanging close together on a white rail
The night before, 5 March

Eight looks pressed and hung in order. Everything you see on the following plates left this rail at six in the morning in a van.

Who pressed them

Plates 03 — 07

A black two-piece suit worn seated on a stool in a dark room
03

Suit CANDIANO

08:02cloth 09·B€1,180
A camel jacket worn loose, the figure standing far off against white
04

Jacket DARSENA

08:26cloth 09·D€690
A long dark coat worn over a slip, the face half covered by a fan
05

Coat PIALASSA

08:44cloth 09·F€1,080
A cream shirt with a gathered collar photographed from behind
06

Shirt TEODORA

07:51cloth 09·E€290
A pale suit seen in profile against a dark wall
07

Jacket GALLA

08:58cloth 09·A€740
A figure sitting on the floor in a grey jacket and wide trousers, reading
Grey knitted cloth falling in deep ridges
Plate 08 · Vest ALFONSINE over shirt TEODORA · cloth 09·A · €440 · 09:00, light gone

Eight plates, eight slivers

The last frame is always the cloth, not the figure. A photograph of a person tells you how a garment hangs for forty seconds; a crop of the weave tells you what you will be living with for ten years. Both go in the file, and the file is what we send you before the measure.

The list, with prices
Taglio 10 · shot in September

Come and stand in it

A photograph is an argument. The rail on Via Baccarini is the evidence. Thursday to Saturday, 10:00–18:00, one hour each.

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