The cleaners wear Prada
Michael Nyman video “Cleaners Wear Prada” was presented On world premiere at the Fashion Museum at Palazzo Morando. The new exhibition space will host from 25th to 30th May “A shaded view on Fashion Film”, the first fashion film festival created by Diane Pernet, pioneering journalist and blogger, among the first to believe in the video as a new language for the fashion.
“Cleaners wear Prada” is the only Nyman video where the link with fashion world is evident, as we can guess from the title. As Nyman said, his videos and photos are absolutely random, apparently the result of an “accident.”
With a technique-no technique and low-fi results , the video tells the history of two window cleaners working at the legendary Prada store in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan.
Nyman has followed the movements and gestures of the two unwitting actors in the early morning, he had just left the hotel, when his curiosity was caught by this scene.
After creating wonderful soundtracks for films by Peter Greenaway and Jan Champion, Nyman casually became a photographer and film director. You can see a series of photos taken during his travels – in agreement with the structural view of his music – and a series of videos: unpublished collection by Diane Pernet at Galleria Carla Sozzani Cine Opera.
This collection shows everyday life episodes tied to tradition, when in the video, sometimes even without soundtrack, some old men from the south of Italy play ancient Morra game, inside an extravagant mix of local sounds and his musical repertoire.
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Text by Stefania Seoni – images by Jacopo Turrini - video courtesy of A Shaded View On Fashion
