Label - Gatti Galeotti

[smartarse]

Ok, first of all this is not your typical Milan Couture as you know it. I don't think crime should be glamorized but this however, is out of the norm in the fashion industry. lol

*Come this Spring Collection 2009/2010 Inmates of San Vittore also known as the label Gatti Galeotti will have their debut of their RTW.

check it out. Surprisingly they're very good!

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5669051




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Fashion as Rehabilitation
by Amanda Gore (PSFK London)

The Times reports on an Italian cooperative known as Project Alice that is teaching rehabilitation to inmates in Milanese prisons through the art of fashion design.

Rehabilitation in Italy comes in a fashionable form, you see. You may be

serving 15 years for murder but that’s no reason to let standards slip.
Female inmates at this Milanese secure unit have the option to take a course
in fashion design. Last week they held a fashion show in the prison grounds
to show off creations by Alberta Ferretti and Pollini, and are set to
collaborate with major Italian designers such as Anna Molinari of Blumarine’

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Having already created costumes for both TV and La Scala theatre productions, the project teaches both design and production, aiming to instill useable skills to help the women make something of their lives. Up next is the inmates creation of their own fashion brand, led by the guidance of Anna Molinari, which will be available in stores within the next couple of months under the label Gatti
Galeotti - Jail-cats!
With celebrities finding it increasingly hard to stay out of prison, maybe this is the start of a whole new trend- incarceration chic??!

*source http://www.psfk.com/2007/05/fashion_as_reha.html