The city is the catwalk.

The Venetian Carnival may finally aufgebrezelt, because the competition for the best costume has begun. Also for the double winner Tanja Schulz-Hess, it is now exciting: Will their costumes again this year to be?

 

This weekend is the heart of the creative costume makers in Venice beat. Because now is aufgerüscht: Since on Friday at St. Mark's Square, the first pre-selection for the competition for the best costume of the Carnevale di Venezia 2009 has put the costume crazies really started.

Because it is the international award for best costume. The preliminary two days the participants have the jury of celebrities and designers to convince the "golden ticket" for the finals on Sunday einzuheimsen. With 400 participants from around the world is not so easy. People from the business, such as set designers and decorators, while competing with a very passionate amateurs like me. This year, the Italian film costume designer and Oscar-winner Gabrielle Pescucci the tone in the jury.

Rüsch The games begin

Since last year, there is also a choreographer for the show: Nikos Lagousakos, 35, it is not easy, all the non-professional catwalk runners tame. The celebration of the Olympic Games in Athens to design for him was probably a child's play compared with this colorful bunch in Venice. Until now, he showed great patience and always good mood.

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Tanja Schulz-Hess

Tanja Schulz-Hess, 38, prefers it for ten years at the Carnival of Venice. 2007 and 2008 won the publishing business from Hamburg with their robes "Luna Park" and "Montgolfiera" each took first place in the competition of the costumes.
For blogs online, it will take effect on Monday in her diary from the tumult of the "Carnevale di Venezia 2009" report, about intrigue, rumors and the world behind the masks.
www.worldofcostumes.com

Clearly this year is to remember that Mayor Massimo Cacciari, and the artistic director Marco Balich really think about the carnival have made. Many things are not as bright and loud as in past years, even the otherwise slain advertising in the city is pleasant genres and you can focus more on the Carnival itself.

And it is also necessary. For my friends I have with my Hot Melt Glue Guns this year, nine robes gebastelt. We need to get up early and give us much trouble in the makeup and clothing, before we go into the crowd dare. The Carnival of Venice is not a mere parade. It turns on the squares and streets, the whole city is a catwalk. And the makers of the game see it of course also like to mask with the audience and working with visitors photographed.

This spectacle is close contact with people from all over the world is guaranteed. But precisely this makes for me the charm of this event. I imagine then, that the Japanese, Americans, Russians and Indians at home, their friends and family photos to show on a picture and then say: "You know, but it was very beautiful." If in this way people across cultural costumes happy makes me happy. Perhaps a minor - but honestly, there are informal ways meaningful to waste his free time than to bring people joy.