In 1948, Germana Marucelli began collaborating with painter and stage designer Pietro Zuffi, who drew patterns specifically for her dresses. In 1951 an item from this collection was exhibited at the Triennale di Milano, to the clamour of the public while others were shown in February of the same year, at Villa Torrigiani, the private residence of Giovanni Battista Giorgini, in what is remembered as the starting point of Italian fashion.
Guido Ballo, in an article published in the magazine “Bellezza”, succinctly points out the maturity of Marucelli’s work and her need to strengthen the artistic partnership with intellectuals and artist friends.
«… Among poems, sculptures, and paintings, Germana Marucelli has found herself at ease: and has been able to make use of the work of the young painter Pietro Zuffi to create costumes, in which the pictorial rhythms – in images of precious taste – become part of the originality of the dress . It is not therefore the simple matter of imprinting the cloth with a painter’s design: as happened for instance in France, but of specific creation, implemented through a new approach to embroidery according to the model created».
Guido Ballo
