Hans Feurer: Fashion Without a Label exhibit at AltaRoma in Rome. Text & most photos by Glenn Belverio

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Above: Some views of the Pinacoteca del Tesoriere, located inside the Palazzo Patrizi, where the Hans Feurer photo exhibit was staged. This early-17th-century Italian Baroque palace is renowned as the residence where four popes and their descendants have received hundreds of guests in high style for the past six centuries.

 

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Dear Shaded Viewers,

For AltaRoma, this retrospective of Swiss fashion photographer Hans Feurer’s photos was curated by Valentina Ciarallo and Maria Chiara Russo. “Hans Feurer: Fashion Without a Label” features naturally lit, unfiltered and un-retouched photos of everyone from Iman Bowie to Grace Jones to Pat Cleveland.

Over a period of thirty years, Feurer has shot thousands of images, from the famous shots of Swinging London in the 1970s for Nova, to the era-defining advertising campaigns for Kenzo Tagada in the 1980s, as well as numerous collaborations with the most iconic fashion magazines from ELLE to VOGUE to NUMERO.

This palace as a splendid location for the exhibit, providing a rich backdrop that juxtaposed nicely with Feurer’s cutting-edge work.

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Diane chatted with hat and fragrance designer Naomi Goodsir. She showed her work last season at AltaRoma.

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Musician Diego Buongiorno. My friend Camille Paglia has likened him to everything from a 17th-century musketeer at the French court to Oscar Wilde’s Lord Henry Wotton, inspired by the great aesthete Montesquiou.

The following photos are by C. Meggiolaro e E. Rosato / Allucinazione:

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AltaRoma’s Clara Tosi Pamphili and Hans Feurer.

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Feurer and designer Kenzo Tagada.

Thanks for reading.

Baci,

Glenn Belverio

Glenn Belverio

Glenn Belverio is a writer and New Yorker. He has been reporting for ASVOF since 2005 and currently works at The Museum of Modern Art as the Content Manager for MoMA Design Store.