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Aldo Fallai
Born in Florence in 1943, Aldo Fallai lives and works in his native city and in Milan. With a diploma from the Istituto d’Arte in Florence, where he later teaches, he opened a graphic design studio with photographer Mario Strippini and began to approach photography himself. In the mid-1970s he met Giorgio Armani, who was making his debut as a designer at the beginning of the global affirmation of Made in Italy, to which Fallai’s photography contributed significantly. His first assignment from Armani marked the start of a collaboration that continued for almost thirty years.
Fallai made his name as a fashion photographer with a disenchanted and unconventional style. Having achieved international fame, Fallai also worked for other labels and his reportages appear regularly in the Italian and international fashion titles. In the 1980s he began to address the icons of the history of art and the portrait genre, which he links to fashion in a highly personal synthesis. Tuscan Mannerism, Caravaggio, the Pre-Raphaelites and the exoticism of the French orientalists have been identified by critics as Fallai’s artistic inspirations. He has published several photography books, including Almost One Year (1993), In Fabbrica (2007) and From Giorgio Armani to Renaissance (2014).
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