Alberto Mauri is one of the main tango vestuaristas, and many of his designs look these days on stage where it is realized the world.

Theirs is the tango, but no dance dress. It is not the only but stands. Alberto Mauri is the author of the main outfits that are on the stage of the annual World Tango is done these days in the City, and tomorrow will by the end of Tango Track, the milongas, and after tomorrow, dispute the final Stage Tango.

Mauri started the 20 years ago 42 He is working on the show, He is self-taught and comes from a family of seamstresses and weavers. His uncle tailor, he inherited the office and training in the graphic design passes, to which he added fine arts, but recognizes that the seam you can; He learned under scenarios and more commercial spaces. What did all this? “Build daily costume pieces for stage, involving a special moldería and a clothing retailer”.

Where you have seen his stuff? In almost all musicals, in particular, in Pepe Cibrian, asDavid, the king, and major theatrical proposals Romay, with whom he worked in charge of her costume workshop. His carefully crafted pieces were also on stage to many entertainment figures climbed, as Claudia Lapacó, light Kerz, Paola Krum, Maria Aurelia Bisutti, Erika Wallner, Alba Solis, Valeria Lynch, Laura Fidalgo, Julia Zenko, Graciela Alfano and even (Graciela) Borges.

But if someone has to point, brand designer Manuel Gonzalez, “there are many people who sews, but the seam is something else: you have to know constantly pass that test error we subjected the daily task, and I think it is overcome by intuition and passion for what you do”.

And does 18 who works for tango. “One thing leads to another and met Mora Godoy, I made a dress and did not stop. It was an enriching exchange; I told: I am making an eighteenth century adapted corset which goes like, and loved”.

But it is not the only figure or cast that puts in your hands costume making, the dance company Germán Cornejo took their creations to the Grand Palais in Paris, where tribute was paid last June who claimed that the tango was his “rap latino”, Karl Lagerfeld.

And the tango their designs come to everyone, for example, Hand world champions (2016) Agustina Vignau and Hugo Mastrolorenzo. Y, in this edition, theirs is in the dancers Carla Dominguez, Yesica Esquivel, Create Chantal Fernandez, Clara Silveyra, Candela Vega and Victoria Carrascosa.

Source: La Nacion newspaper – 19 August 2019