uniform piece by Giulia Piscitelli from the Rischi Minori exhibition at Fondazione Giuliani

…is one of the best Italian street fashions around these days (since much of what we see the Romans wearing is so conservative, subtle, elegant, restrained, and even conformist – except when they are out jogging and exercising in one of the many treasured private-villa-estates-turned-public-parks, like Villa Doria Pamphilj or Villa Borghese, in which case they bust out with some extraordinary lycra looks) worn by all sorts of mostly-men utility and construction workers – which I am reminded of tonight at the opening of Giulia Piscitelli’s new show ‘Rischi Minori‘ at Testaccio’s newish Fondazione Giuliani where she presented a series of such uniforms which felt like a tribute to these everyday workers.