Mariano Fortuny The Avant Garde Designer
11 may 1871 3 may 1949 was a spanish fashion designer who opened his couture house in 1906 and continued until 1946.
Mariano fortuny the avant garde designer. Mariano fortuny s father mariano fortuny y marsal passes away in rome. Marià fortuny i de madrazo pronounced məɾiˈa fuɾˈtuɲ i ðə məˈðɾaθu. With his multitude of talents and interests mariano fortuny perfectly embodied the wagnerian concept of the total work of art a doctrine underlying all his inventions that were unique combinations of styles and influences drawn upon the past or distant cultures and places but made with the latest and most innovative technologies.
Mariano fortuny is born into a renowned family of artists in granada spain. Although he was mainly known for his high fashion garments and his fabrics he was also a painter etcher photographer set designer creator of electric lamps. The studio 1907 collection composed of the famous diffusers designed by mariano fortuny is among the products proposed.
Mariano fortuny y madrazo died in his venetian palace in 1949 and was buried in the verano cemetery in rome. Though fortuny was only three he and his father had formed an unusually strong emotional bond. Soon after fortuny s mother moves the family to paris.
He was the son of the painter mariano fortuny y marsal.