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VENICE: An international American fashion
designer will march with local citizens at
the Venice Film Festival to protest the
building of a controversial Venice nuclear
power plant
VENEZIA: Uno stilista americano di moda
internazionale marcerà con la popolazione
locale al Festival del Cinema di Venezia per
protestare contro la costruzione di una centrale
nucleare a Venezia.
Geoffrey B. Small, an American international avant-garde
fashion designer will march on the Lido di Venezia on
September 4th with local citizens during the Venice Film
festival to protest the building of a controversial nuclear
power plant just a few kilometres away from Venice.
Geoffrey B. Small, uno stilista americano di moda
d'avanguardia internazionale, marcerà al Lido di Venezia il
prossimo 4 settembre insieme alla popolazione locale in
occasione del Festival del Cinema per protestare contro la
costruzione di un impianto nucleare che dovrebbe sorgere a
solo pochi chilometri da Venezia.
ON June 28 in Paris, the designer dedicated his latest fashion
collection "Logomania" to the people of Italy and around the world
who now face the ominous specter of the global Nuclear
Renaissance being pushed upon them by governments and industry
as a "clean and safe" energy solution to global warming with an
emotional presentation and surprising finale that marked the first
international designer fashion collection to openly comes out against
nuclear energy and arms proliferation in the 21st century. A
documentary short film was shot by Paris film-maker Jerome Chichet
that captured the historic, emotional presentation. And a new website
launches now in September to promote Logomania
(www.geoffreybsmall.net/logomania.html).
Since 1993, the designer has been a pioneer of avant-garde
environmental "green" fashion design and has presented more
fashion collections in Paris than any other American designer. He
lives and works near Venice in the Veneto region town of Cavarzere,
where he designs and makes one the world's most sustainable and
environmentally sound fashion collections.
Starting July 2009, when the Italian government reversed a 20 year
moratorium on nuclear energy and announced plans to build 8-15
new nuclear power stations all over Italy, Small has been involved
with helping local citizens and community leaders in their efforts to
stop plans to build dangerous new french EPR nuclear power
stations in the Veneto region at various proposed sites that include
Chioggia (Ve), Rosolina (Ro), Porte Tolle (Ro), Cavarzere (Ve)
and Legnago (Vr).
On September 4th, over 25 local and provincial environmental and
citizens groups will organize and unite at the regional level for the first
time, and form the "Rete Veneta Contro il Nucleare." To mark the
historic formation of the Veneto region's growing antinuclear
movement, large ACTV motonave boats filled with citizens against
nuclear energy in the Veneto (and for a massive new investment in
A PARIGI, il 28 giugno scorso, lo stilista ha dedicato la sua ultima
collezione di moda "Logomania" agli italiani e a chi nel mondo sta
affrontando lo spettro della "Rinascimento Nucleare" globale
(imposta su di loro dai governi e
dall'industria come una soluzione al problema del surriscaldamento
globale, per avere energia "pulita e sicura") con un'emozionante
presentazione e un finale a sorpresa che l'ha segnata come la prima
fra le collezioni di moda di stilisti
internazionali che si è apertamente manifestata contro stilisti'energia
nucleare e la ploriferazione delle armi nel ventunesimo secolo. Un
breve film documentario è stato girato dal regista parigino Jerome
Chichet, che è riuscito
a catturare la storica ed emozionante presentazione. E un nuovo
sito-web inizia ora in Settembre per promuovere Logomania
(www.geoffreybsmall.net/logomania.html)
Fin dal 1993, lo stilista è stato un pioniere nel design d'avanguardia
della moda "verde" ed ha presentato a Parigi più collezioni di moda
di qualsiasi altro stilista americano. Egli vive e lavora nel Veneto,
nella città di Cavarzere, dove disegna e crea collezioni di moda fra le
più eco sostenibili al
mondo e nel pieno rispetto dell'ambiente.
Dal 2009, quando il governo italiano, dopo 20 anni di "no al nucleare"
, ha fatto marcia indietro annunciando il piano per la costruzione di
8-15 nuove centrali nucleari da spalmare su tutto il territorio italiano,
Small ha iniziato il suo coinvolgimento nell'attività di aiuto alla
popolazione e alle
autorità locali nei loro sforzi per fermare i piani di costruzione nel
Veneto di nuove pericolose centrali EPR francesi in vari siti che
sono stati proposti e che includono Chioggia (Ve), Rosolina (Ro),
Porto Tolle (Ro), Cavarzere (Ve) e Legnago (Vr).
Il giorno 4 settembre più di 25 gruppi di cittadini di varie località e
renewable energies), will arrive at the Lido di Venezia from Chioggia
and Venice at 16.00 and form a unified protest "happening" march
on the Lido di Venezia arriving at the Palazzo del Cinema in the
middle of the 67th Venice International Film Festival. It is hoped that
regional, national and international attention will be brought upon the
risky and dangerous nuclear projects which could take place as little
as 15 kilometres away from the Rialto bridge and Piazza San Marco
itself.
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province venete si riuniranno per la prima volta a livello regionale per
formare la "Rete Veneta Contro il Nucleare". Allo scopo di marcare
l'importante formazione storica del movimento antinucleare nella
regione del Veneto, grandi battelli motonave ACTV, con a bordo i
manifestanti contrari al nucleare nel Veneto (e a favore di nuovi e
maggiori investimenti nelle fonti di energia rinnovabile), arriveranno al
Lido da Chioggia e da Venezia alle ore 16,00 e formeranno un
corteo unificato di protesta "happening" che marcerà al Lido per
arrivare al Palazzo del Cinema nel bel mezzo della
sessantasettesima Mostra del Cinema di Venezia. Si spera in questo
modo di attrarre l'attenzione regionale, nazionale e internazionale sui
rischi e i pericoli dei progetti nucleari che potrebbero sorgere a
meno di 15 chilometri dal Ponte di Rialto e dalla stessa piazza San
Marco.
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violent contrast with the delicate fabrics they were pinned on. And this bold reminder of Geoffrey's strong dedication to the
antinuclear cause may indeed have looked, at first sight, quite outlandish amid all these illustrations of timeless
refinement. But this was not the case, as one was progressively induced to admit ; because the barred symbol and the
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