SPRING/SUMMER COLLECTlON 1999
SPRING/SUMMER COLLECTlON 1999
| An ending
Millennium's collection,. but also the conclusion of an extraordinary cycle
for women of the 20th Gentury.
In female fashion, the 20th Gentury represents the most important change ever faced by women. Fashion has been replaced by a new way of being, appearing and hiding. The psychological attitude completely altered and the new and exceptional freedom recovered, all has changed. Away with corsets, constraints and heavy, superposed skirts. Instead: trousers, shirts and smooth cardigans. Fashion has become one of the many ways for women, maybe the most important, to discover and express their autonomy and self- determination, their sensuality and the use of their own body as conscient way to communicate. Fashion is a chameleon in a continuos process of becoming the unseizable chimera of all vanity Through the art of dressing one discovers its soul in its eternal flow. I propose this soul in a female way, by subdued grace, a deep research of cultural winkles and the worship of quality, the only antidote to being out of fashion which makes wardrobe and ourselves fade away. Hence l propose new versions of my adored little white linen declined through tunics, small dresses transparent skirts cut out on the border in tails held together by unusual ajour. The intimate blending of cashmere with shining silk transforms the prince of winter yarns into summer one: sliding garments are made with subtle silk ribbons interlaced which, when tied, replace knits. Argyle, the male bon ton's ideogramme, passes on to a new environment of linen and transparent silk devore'. The transparency often smoothed by the thickness of overlapping fabrics, remains, the new fashion's leitmotiv. Men shirt's cloned in endless shapes and proportions, For the last season's collection of the 2Oth century Laura Biagiotti has imagined a magic lantern at the end of the fashion show. The interior which describes the decades, synthesized by their number and their female silhouette, appearing after the other. The Tens, Twenties and Thirties pass by through a virtual "flash back" up to our present days and are declined by the white anthology of Laura Biagiotti. The curtains of the Piccolo Teatro Studio fall down and contemporary realities begin defiling. Projected towards the third Millennium, continuing the history of costume and life. Fashion, in the same way, keeps showing every new season with the same inexhausted passion. As Virginia Woolf did in writing, so do I try with my collections, to catch the essence of contemporary life and rewriting it on a dress: luxury and flexibility, news and metamorphosis. |
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