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Born in Florence (1883) but of Anglo-Swiss origins, the futurist Ernesto Michaelles, known as Thayaht (a palindrome, reading the same in both directions) was the first to create a T shaped suit model, made of one 
piece only.
It was 1919, it had aristocratic origins and it was going to become the most common and useful working uniform: the famous overall.
Its revolutionary shape was perfectly fulfilling the criteria of dynamism, practicality and modernity that futurism advocated: clothes needed to inflict no constrictions but promote mobility and athletic movements.
Thayaht has been a truly multifaceted artist, a designer for Madeleine Vionnet fashion house, the most famous Parisian atelier of the twenties, he also worked in the theatre as a costume and a set designer often collaborating with his brother Ram.
Sculptor, graphic designer, photographer and even an inventor as, in his experimentations in the art of goldsmithing, he managed to create a new alloy that he named “taiattite”. With this material he realised various jewels of primitive inspiration which are surprisingly fashionable.
