As a child I was obsessed with Corto Maltese, and his beautiful stories and wardrobe. 'Its my Peter Pan syndrome, talking about the naivety and expectations of youth.

Notably rubber boots finished with beveled heels, or great lazy lad sneakers held together with humungous laces. Sialelli's biggest skill is mixing funky street and fine fabrics, seen in his dip-dyed turquoise pants and a wonderful selection of funky boots. Many seemed like crazy young men with a sailor father from Cornwall, and a gypsy mother from Seville, just like Corto Maltese. Or, most eye-catchingly, sequined check jerkins, for when a skateboarder wins an Oscar. Yet while frequently nautical, there was a skateboarder twist throughout, albeit rather bourgeois boarders – with double-face cashmere parkas, and several really dapper baby blue check cotton shirts worn with matching summer cummerbunds. Knits came with embroidered sea birds, gulls and albatrosses. And fun too, like the leather sailor shirt over-dyed with images of Cortoʼs adventures with South Sea Island pirates. In terms of tailoring, Sialelli whipped up some navy officer blazers, naval cadet striped shirts and sailors' pants – all easy and boyish.

Dude white shirts emblazoned with the profile of the seadog captain and beautiful aqua blue naval scenes. The result was some cartoonish yet quaintly cool ideas. Together with the animated film you will find the following special contents: Corto Maltese: from drawing to animation, from two-dimensional to three-dimensional - The sets and original drawings of the films - Interview with Pascal Morelli. There is no doubt that it is piracy and for the young lieutenant of the German navy Slutter the problem is just that: being forced to participate in actions that he disapproves of. Monaco has decided to support Germany in exchange for money and this battle between different wills pushes him to wage a privateer war. Corto Maltese is part, together with the shady Rasputin, of a group of adventurers enlisted by the Monk, a mysterious character whose face we never see. The story of Corto Maltese is set shortly before the outbreak of the First World War in the Pacific islands. Corto Maltese - A ballad of the salty sea - A classic of Hugo Pratt's comic is revisited in cartoon, respecting the graphic trait characteristic of the author and embellishing it with dreamy tropical backgrounds and environments.

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