That the event took place during the thick of the Venice Film Festival was also no accident. Yesterday, Ferretti received a Women in Cinema award at the Hotel Excelsior for her work in the film industry, with the organizers citing both her role as a regular red carpet favorite for some of Hollywood’s greatest stars, and her involvement in crafting a dress for Sandra Bullock’s character in Ocean’s 8. For Ferretti, the award holds a special significance given her life-long passion for film. She noted that she grew up immersed in the work of Federico Fellini, who was born just half an hour away from her hometown of Cattolica in Rimini, and that the mutual learning process of working with actors has been one of the greatest joys of her career. “I am a dreamer, and when I’m seeking inspiration, I picture these powerful actresses wearing the clothes,” said Ferretti. “Even planning a collection is a little bit like being a director of a movie, imagining and interpreting the costumes that the women in this movie are going to wear.”
If her show at Ca’ Rezzonico was a movie, then its star was Anna Cleveland, who closed the show in a dazzling silver pleated gown that could have come straight out of an Erté illustration, swishing and twirling her cape as she turned in circles down the grand entryway. The finishing touch? A pair of sculpted silver hands crossed around Cleveland’s waist, crafted by the Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn, whose large-scale sculpture “Support” of two hands propping up the historic Ca’ Sagredo on the Grand Canal served as one of the highlights of the city’s 2017 Biennale. As the models filed out into the palazzo’s courtyard and gardens at the end of the show to the dying strains of Vivaldi, so concluded a singular ode to the city’s enduring magic. As Ferretti put it: “Fantastico.”
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