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ALBUM Atelier Selene Giorgi largo Richini 14, Milan Selene Giorgi developed her talents at the Brera Academy of lend character to even the simplest dress. Her latest invention Fine Arts: her dresses are marvellous and outstanding sculpis the Mutabito: thanks to zippers hidden among the folds, one tures, made all the more original and glamorous by her choice clothing item can be transformed into a variety of garments of fabrics and imaginative styles. Selene Giorgi’s adventure for many different occasions: jacket, skirt, cocktail dress, began by experimenting in different fields, from drawing and evening gown... You may find her in her atelier, just opposite painting to dÊcoupage and sculpture. Her predisposition and the University of Milan, as she arranges and pins her fabrics love for textiles led her to embrace tailoring and to develop her on a dressmaker’s dummy, envisioning what shape and moveown highly original clothes and ingenious creative solutions. ment she will give to her new design. Inspiration, technical One of her specialities is moulding felt with her hands, as if it mastery, a deep knowledge of the characteristics of materials and an ongoing aesthetic quest make each of her creations were clay. By the same process, she transforms cashmere, silk unique. And, as Selene likes to say: her dresses do not clothe and organza into stunning sculptural blouses. Also notable are the body, they clothe the soul. atelierselenegiorgi.it her ultra-light fabric necklaces, stitched in soft whorls, which

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