My personal point of view on fall-winter 2013-2014 collections through an inventory of images selected from the most interesting shows.
It is not a new couture. It is not even a new avant-garde aesthetic. Surely it is a reassuring style that belongs since always to an intellectual tradition, the one that emerges from fall-winter 2013-2014 collections which upsets half-measures [...]
On January 20th in Paris, Saint Laurent fashion show, designed by the come back of Hedi Slimane has marked the closing of men’s fashion shows for Fall-Winter 2013. Selecting an inventory of images from Milan and Paris fashion shows, the dominant themes which I thought was most obvious, were consistency and concreteness, which means need to remain faithful to [...]
Without too much yelling and discreetly, two young designers who want to maintain the anonymity at all costs, have shown their first clothing collection with the name Var/City to Pitti Uomo (Stand 22 in Hall Arsenal); using a name that comes from the word “varsity “that inspired the brand revisited in lettering and which is distributed by [...]
Aware. Self-indulgent. Monothematic. Not all designers are the same. Some of their collections in some cases reflect their biographies. Each of them draws a world that corresponds to them. Signs become symbols of the world as they would like it to be. Somehow they only create clothes for themselves and for an audience of their own image. Some of them were [...]
Fashion free itself from the excess of maximalism which was prevailing in most winter collections. As a detoxifying effect, catwalk proposals for summer 2013 would like to be a tribute to simplicity. A truth as easy as essential: if it is true that simplicity preserve mental health. Watch out though, simplicity does not mean flattening. It takes skill to [...]
Photography MARA CORSINO
From a personal inventory of images collected from last june Milan men’s fashion show backstage, a graphic silhouette emerges from rational volumes. Prints with pop drawings wink to dramatic eighties. Futuristic materials with a chrome look super sleek. Inevitable studded details.
BURBERRY Spring/Summer 2013
COSTUME NATIONAL Spring/Summer 2013
GUCCI Spring/Summer 2013
MISSONI Spring/Summer 2013
VERSACE Spring/Summer 2013
Photography MARA CORSINO
A sense of suspense dominates the collection SS 13. The distinction between public and private, sleep and wakefulness, otium and negotium is obliterated with a rapid and precise sign, full of emotion but without pathos.
Taste for uniforms, for formular wearing, softens in the idea of productive idleness between four walls. The basic formula is jackets with pants, plus [...]
In the welter of proposals presented at Pitti Immagine Uomo, Studio Pretzel collection, designed by emerging designer Emiliano Laszlo, is the one which most impressed me, mainly thank to the magnificent essentialism made of austere forms. A collection with a Japanese flavor. Built on the philosophical beauty that evokes the scent of freedom of contemporary fashion.
Emiliano makes a virtue of [...]
After a long series of famous designers asked to design a limited edition collection, H&M, involves for the first time a fashion director for a special project. Anna Dello Russo former editor of L’Uomo Vogue, currently holds the position of fashion director at large and creative consultant for Vogue Japan, has created a special collection [...]
We are in cybernetic era and also the one of the fragmentation of aesthetic, from social networks to internet sites, anyone can built their own little universe where to hyde themselves, without having to communicate with the outside world.
Atelier
Uniqueness project is the world of Alessandra Facchinetti. An interactive platform, which breaks down all barriers between the viewer and who participates [...]
