One of the biggest names in fashion has joined forces with one of Hollywood’s legendary directors on his latest film project. Italian designer Giorgio Armani is the executive producer of Martin Scorsese’s My Voyage To Italy, which has just made its US premiere at the New York Film Festival.
Scorsese says he worked on the film, a documentary about post-war cinema in Italy, “in between all the other movies” - a reference to 1999’s Nicolas Cage vehicle Bringing Out The Dead and the upcoming Gangs of New York. The famed director sees his latest film, which took three years to make, as both movie tribute and history lesson.
"I made the film with young people in mind," says Scorsese. "I wanted to shake the dust off film history and ground it within common, everyday, lived experiences. Ultimately, I wanted to do with these films what the best teachers did for me, which was create a sense of continuity between the past, the present and the future."
Armani, as well as executive producing the 246-minute documentary, is sponsoring an additional screening of the film at the New York University film festival.
Though My Voyage To Italy is his first stint as a producer, one of Armani’s earliest forays into film was over 20 years ago when he designed Richard Gere’s style-setting gear in 80’s classic American Gigolo. Since then, Armani has acted as costume designer on a number of films, including mobster flick The Untouchables and Spanish director Pedro Almodovar’s High Heels.
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