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#Videocrux - Costume makers get ready for Venice Carnival Costume makers get ready for Venice Carnival
Every year the Venice Carnival draws thousands of masked fans, many competing with each other for the most elaborate or impressive costume. With weeks to go before this year's Carnival, the city's most prestigious costume makers are already gearing up to address themselves to this year's theme: Louis XIV, the Sun King.
Pietro Longhi's custom costume workshop

Henry VIII to Harlequin - custom made costumes
Francesco Briggi, Couturier says "Every day I'm looking through books of history, art history, costumes. If someone asks me for an outfit from 1750 rather than 1780, I'm able to understand what the key differences are, and better advise my customers."
Carnival was reincarnated in early Feb 1979
The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. Though it probably had much earlier roots, the Carnival in Venice was supposedly first recorded in 1296, when the Senate of the Republic issued an edict declaring the day before Lent as a public holiday. The Carnival was reincarnated in early February 1979, when, according to the Gazzettino di Venezia (8 February 1979), some parents and civic leaders in the city decided to sponsor a more formal festival to substitute for the parties of teenagers, which many thought were getting too rowdy. By 1981, or 1983-84 at the latest, The Carnival of Venice had largely mutated to be A Carnival in Venice, with the city and its citizens playing an increasingly passive and background role for the tens, and then hundreds of thousands of tourists who showed up – more every year.
"Italians comeback for the carnival"

Passion which comes with a pricetag

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