Fashion Design Susan Dimasi Featuring Emily Matheson, Marcia Clark Jones, Jonathan Wilkinson and Craig Jardine Music HDU
First shown in The Space Between at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
Periodical Costume, Part 2 revisits a garment that Italian Director Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood both claimed to have generated for the man with no name in A Fistful of Dollars. The poncho has an integral stylistic and narrative place within the film; Clint Eastwood remembered the poncho as a simple piece of ‘Do-it-Yourself’ fashion design in which he cut a hole in a blanket he purchased himself before his arrival on the film set in Spain. Sergio Leone remembered it as part of his own far more considered conception of the man with no name. The poncho in this instance is made by an eminent fashion designer (Susan Dimasi) from an old blanket. The coast of W.A. was the first piece of Australia sighted by many immigrants including Susan Dimasi’s father who left Italy by boat in the 1950s. By all accounts they thought it looked like a good place to make a Western. In this case, Moonee Valley, a tiny piece of the ‘Wild West’ wedged firmly within inner suburban Melbourne provided the external location.
First shown in The Space Between at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
Periodical Costume, Part 2 revisits a garment that Italian Director Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood both claimed to have generated for the man with no name in A Fistful of Dollars. The poncho has an integral stylistic and narrative place within the film; Clint Eastwood remembered the poncho as a simple piece of ‘Do-it-Yourself’ fashion design in which he cut a hole in a blanket he purchased himself before his arrival on the film set in Spain. Sergio Leone remembered it as part of his own far more considered conception of the man with no name. The poncho in this instance is made by an eminent fashion designer (Susan Dimasi) from an old blanket. The coast of W.A. was the first piece of Australia sighted by many immigrants including Susan Dimasi’s father who left Italy by boat in the 1950s. By all accounts they thought it looked like a good place to make a Western. In this case, Moonee Valley, a tiny piece of the ‘Wild West’ wedged firmly within inner suburban Melbourne provided the external location.
