Tilda Swinton brings costumes to life in Rome's 'Embodying Pasolini' show

Oscar winner Tilda Swinton brings costumes seen in Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's films back to life in a special performance where the focus is on the clothes. In "Embodying Pasolini", the actor unpacks, displays and tries on the costumes, sometimes with the help of fashion historian and curator Olivier Saillard. The show - with around 40 costumes designed by Danilo Donati for, among others, the late director's "Oedipus Rex" and "The Decameron" - will be premiered on Friday at Rome's the Pelanda and the Mattatoio exhibition pavilion and streamed online. "The performance is really the creation of an exhibition and we are curators and it's real, it's not a fake, it's not a fiction. We are creating an exhibition here," Swinton told Reuters on Thursday.