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Richard Avedon - Marisa Berenson Wearing a Dress by Ferdinando Sarmi (Vogue 1972)

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Story of a Love Affair (Cronaca di un amore) (Chronicle of a Love) (1950) Michelangelo Antonioni

June 26th 2024

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At the ITAA conference a guy gave a presentation about count ferdinando sarmi, a lesser known American fashion designer, and one of the questions was “was he really a count?”

The answer? “We don’t know but he was young, hot, and Italian so people believed him”

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Evening dress by Ferdinando Sarmi, 1965.

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Neal Barr - Dress by Ferdinando Sarmi (Harper’s Bazaar 1967).

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Lucia Bosè and Ferdinando Sarmi on Cronaca di un Amore (1950)

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April 29, 1964 - WWD  Parsons School of Design Critic's Choice

ALBERT CAPRARO (21) winner of the Ferdinando Sarmi award likes romantic #fashion  for beautiful romantic women like Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor.

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Massimo Girotti and Lucia Bosè in Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950)

Cast: Lucia Bosè, Massimo Girotti, Ferdinando Sarmi, Gino Rossi, Marika Rowsky, Rosi Mirafiore, Rubi Dalma. Screenplay: Michelangelo Antonioni, Daniele D’Anza, Silvio Giovaninett, Francesco Maselli, Piero Tellini. Cinematography: Enzo Serafin. Production design: Piero Filipponi. Film editing: Eraldo Da Roma. Music: Giovanni Fusco. 

Ten years before L'Avventura, with its elegantly muddled and elliptically presented relationships, Michelangelo Antonioni was working in a mode clearly influenced by Italian neorealism and American film noir, though one that gives us glimpses of the filmmaker he would become. His first feature film, Story of a Love Affair, takes place in the realms of the wealthy postwar Italian business class. A Milanese industrialist, Enrico Fontana (Ferdinando Sarmi), has come across a cache of photographs of his wife, Paola (Lucia Bosè), and hires a detective agency to find out what it can about her early life. Paola, it seems, was friends with a woman, Giovanna, who died when she fell down an elevator shaft. Giovanna had been engaged to Guido (Massimo Girotti), who, when he learns that Paola's past is the subject of an investigation, goes to see her in Milan. They are both worried that they are under suspicion of causing Giovanna's death, which they witnessed. Guido and Paola fall in love and, realizing she is trapped in her marriage to Fontana, form a plot to murder him. But before Guido can kill him, Fontana dies in an auto accident. When the police arrive to inform her of his death, Paola, fearing that she will be arrested, runs out into the night to meet Guido, who tells her of the accident and agrees to meet her the next day. But when he gets into a waiting taxi, Guido tells the driver to go to the train station. Antonioni admitted that he was influenced by James M. Cain's novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice, as well as the 1946 film version directed by Tay Garnett, in creating the lovers' plot to kill Fontana, but the ironic accident is his own invention, as is the mystery surrounding Fontana's death: Although Guido, who has been lying in wait to shoot Fontana, fails in his task, he hears the crash as well as what sound like gunshots, and arrives at the scene to see the body. He later tells Paola that there was a hole in Fontana's neck, as if he had been shot. The inconclusive ending, as well as the unresolved question of whether Paola and Guido were actually responsible for Giovanna's death, foreshadow Antonioni's later enigmatic approach to narrative, as does his use of the urban landscape as a correlative to the often bleak emotional states of his characters. The film shows its age with its shallow sonic ambience, in which scenes shot both indoors and outdoors have the same resonance, a symptom of the post-sync dialogue dubbing characteristic of Italian films of the period

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Up Close: Evening Dress by Ferdinando Sarmi, 1965-1975 (Goldstein Museum of Design)

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• Strapless evening dress.

Designer: Ferdinando Sarmi

Date: 1965-1975

Place of origin: United States, New York

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Story of a Love Affair (Antonioni, 1950)

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Cronaca di un amore (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950)

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Cronaca di un amore, 1950 (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)

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Lucia Bosè (1931-2020) and Ferdinando Sarmi on the set of Story of a Love Affair, 1950 / Director: Michelangelo Antonioni >

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Lucia Bosé in Cronaca di un Amore / Story of a Love Affair, 1950. (Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, costume designer Ferdinando Sarmi)