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Marx a Prato / Gucci a Prato

>> Chinatown Prato FASHION SHOW <<

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- Concept:
-- China town Prato performance / FASHION SHOW
- June 22nd, 2018
- Chineese Factory Prato FABRICA CINESE performance / FASHION SHOW on an active factory table - June 19th, 2018

THE DRESSES / GARMENTS/ OUTFITS / SHILOUTES
... for managerial class
- Prato vestiti
... of Chinese workers - The condion of the working class in Prato, Prato vestiti cinese
- Accessories:
- Prato videos

- Discontent a Prato/ Prato stress

PRESS RECEIVED
artnet - see pdf Naomi Rea, June 21. 2018
‘Art Can Be as Effective as Surveillance Cameras’: Why an Italian Fashion Capital Is Commissioning Artists to Relieve Racial Tensions- The city of Prato has invited artists including Rainer Ganahl and Yoko Ono to help bridge the sociocultural divide between its Chinese and Italian populations.

La Repubblica - see screenshot (Laura Montanari)

Prato: Rainer Ganahl fa arrabbiare tutti    ( GANAHL MAKES EVERYBODY ANGRY)
L'artista austriaco proietta video di ispezioni di forze dell'ordine nei capannoni cinesi e scatta la polemica: si conclude quasi irissa la festa di quartiere "Pop Art".
Lorenzo Tempestini - 23 giugno 2018 / PRATOSFERA, local newspaper / translation to english is here.


CHINA TOWN PRATO I- public performance / fashion show:

June 22nd 2018 , , China town Prato, near Florence, Italy

Prato is center of ITALY s MADE IN ITALY and dominated by postive and negative news concerning the co-existence of about 50000 (numbers change, lega and illegal) Chinese people with the majority working in the nearly 5000
registered Chinese (or Chinese Italian) companies in a town with only 180 000 inhabitants.

 

Please, teach me Chinese / Please, teach me Italian
subtitle
Marx a Prato / Gucci a Prato, 2018

 

The project is subdivided in two parts

I -- one performed in shillouets specially made with fine fabrics desgined by me for outfits for the MANAGERIAL CLASS

subdiveded in three segments:

II -a second part performed in clothing of PEOPLE WORKING N FACTORIES entitled The condition of the working class a Prato, 2018 .

 

 

managerial part:

 

PART 1 - 13 min (managerial outfits)

What is a Snakehead ?

Please, teach me Chinese, Please, teach me Italian, What is a Snakehead ?, 2018, 3 min , projected for the catwalk
see youtube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld0fHGzkv6g&t=15s
images and additonal information

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PART 2 - 13 min (managerial outfits)

Please, teach me Chinese / Please, teach me Italian / Marx a Prato / Gucci a Prato - main part

Please, teach me Chinese, Please, teach me Italian, Marx a Prato/ Gucci a Prato, 2018 , 13 min - video projected ( YOUTUBE RENDERED IT BLACK AND WHITE TO TO copy right issues.. see color video below with logos hideen as played during the performance. ()
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDMZb9dqKvA&t=439s
additonal information - images only

rhia ia the exact version i had edited wihtout any gucci logo and is in color

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xibxRVt2F0

 

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note : ;the word RACISM was not trasnlated to me properly./ HENE IT IS SLIGHTLY OFF ..I work on a corrected version of the PREPARTAOR Y VIDEO

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PART 3 - 5 min (managerial outfits)

- ASKED TO BE REALLY POSITIVE, I MADE THIS VIDEO. BASED ON THE 1972 COKE AD.. MADE IN ITALY TO SPREAD PERFECT HARMONY AND LOVE


Please, teach me Chinese, Please, teach me Italian, Harmony & Love, 2018, 4.26 min
youtube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PNI2mQV-7U&feature=youtu.be
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WORKER PART:

Please, teach me Chinese / Please, teach me Italian / Marx a Prato / Gucci a Prato, The condition of the working class a Prato, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU4mVy_nh80

SEE IMAGES OF FASHION SHOW.. WORKING PART..

this video was made under special duress see controvery

 

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FOTOS OF THE FASHION SHOW..

video to be coming..

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CHINA TOWN PRATO II - performance / fashion show at a CHINESE FACTORY

Please, teach me Chinese / Please, teach me Italian / Marx a Prato / Gucci a Prato -- IN A CHINESE FACTORY

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see chinese factory owner

 

 

PREPARATORY IMAGES.

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more images to come

 

worker parts and accessories

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see ... controvery in reagrd of the making of the working class part