Gloria Maria Cappelletti.
is the Editor at Large & Creative Director, i-D Italy Professor, Project Methodology of Visual Communication NABA Nuova Accademia Belle Arti Curator, Fashion Film Festival Milano.
Gloria Maria Cappelletti has consolidated her reputation as a pioneer in digital art through her respected and homonymous “Gloria Maria Gallery”, where she made known and supported some of the most influential digital artists of our generation, such as Miltos Manetas and Andreas Angelidakis, and some who were at the beginning of the their career such as Petra Cortright, Rafaël Rozendaal, and Amalia Ulman. Nowadays their works are collected by most famous Museums, from Tate Modern to LACMA.
FASHION - Assistant to M.me Fiamma De Courseulles who was the Italian PR Ambassador of Chanel in the ‘90s, Gloria Maria started working in the fashion industry after graduating in Philosophy at Università Statale di Milano. The Chanel experience opened the door to a PR position at Staff International, that was manufacturing Maison Martin Margiela, Vivienne Westwood, Costume National and Bella Freud. Gloria Maria soon became PA to Stella Ishii, President of Staff USA and moved to NY. In 1997 Gloria Maria became PA to Stephen Sprouse working closely with the late designer on his Andy Warhol collection while still assisting Stella Ishii on all the other Staff USA collections, from Margiela to Westwood.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND MOVING IMAGE - Since 1999 Gloria Maria has been global agent at the international photographers agency Management Artists, consolidating the career of photographers and directors such as Steven Klein, Stephane Sednaoui and Daniel Sannwald, to name a few. More than 15 years experience between NY, Paris and Milan. Since 2014 Gloria Maria is the Curator of Fashion Film Festival Milano, now at its eight edition.
CREATIVE DIRECTION - Since 2013, Editor at Large of i-D has also been the Creative Director of i-DEAS agency for Italian fashion clients, creating an agency at Vice Media that deals with research, strategy, creativity, development, production, content distribution and activation worldwide.
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