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WOMEN'S COLLECTION FALL/WINTER
1998/99
"A magical fancy for reality,
vibrant urge for poetry, flights of
fantasy in everyday life...
A jacket is for me no longer a jacket,
to borrow Gertrude Stein's phrasing
on the rose. Rather, it is
an eclectic shape with roots
in knitwear and the supple ease
of stretch. There's only one
traditional suit, I believe, in the
collection... Dimensions follow
no standard criterion, order. I
did an extra long jump suit
that folds over to create a natural
draping. But I also designed
short dresses that hug the body
(even when the fabric is a full-textured
flannel) expressly to
attain a snug-and-warm effect.
And yet all is graceful, airy,
thanks to the impalpable hues
and metallic nuances. At once
antique and absolutely innovative...
Almost as if I had
sketched the image of a Dante
Gabriele Rossetti page, a
solemn screen-version Joan of
Arc: Renée Falconetti, Ingrid
Bergman, Jean Seberg... Every
manner is natural, however,
every attitude free and easy.
No place for couture postures
here. For the cut is fluid,
elementary, almost futuristic. And
the body moves with true agility
in magical, plastic materials
that evoke a dream. An impression
of sweetness and
strength. . . "
GIANFRANCO FERRE'
CHARMS... Playing with
shadows, volumes, textures - to
lransigures (not represent)
reality - black takes on a liquid
effect: tiny pleats seem stuck
to the body with pitch and
then left to waver freely. Black
becomes duller than sand
paper or turns multi faced from
the endless galou~a scales...
ALLUSIONS... Tricot chips
forni a sheer silvery cardigan over
bare skin in a siren/warrior
mode. Torn impalpable white
shirts in silk and mohair yarns,
evanescent silver prints.
Pure sinuous dresses, robe like
in velvet and metallized lace,
interrupted by razor-sharp cuts...
ILLUSIONS... A cardigan
with double alpaca collar, fluffier
than fur. Fantastic spotty
ponyskin, an almost impossible
combination of forces. Shoes
in cloth and scales, slender
pumps with metal patches - a
flash at every step - shiny
vinyl soles, feet tapered by tight...
WONDERS... Barrel coats,
sculpture bombers and jackets,
variously padded at different
points of the body. Pinstripe
and cheviot fabrics brightened
by the stylized note of a white
shirt or the silvery splendor
of a gray taffeta blouse. Accents
of total black, mineral gray,
cadmium red. Super light jeans as
thin as metal sheets: pewter,
aluminium, platinum. Softened
by lingerie of a metallic consistency,
in gold and bronze...
Accessori - Accessories
GIANFRANCO FERRE'
Bijoux - Borse
- Cinture - Guanti - Lingerie - Occhiali - Scarpe
Bijoux - Bags
- Belts - Gloves - Lingerie - Glasses - Shoes
Visone Blackglama
per Gianfranco Ferré
Tessuti e filati
- Fabrics and yarns
Agnona - Bartolini
- Bellucci - Bertotto - Binda - Boselli Jersey -
Bucol - Cabal
- Canepa - Clerici - Crotti - Dondi Jersey - Faliero
Sarti - Ferla
- Forestyle - G-D-A - Hurel - Julien Faure - Limonta -
Linea M - Mauro
Spriano - Menta - Neo Seta - Nortessile -
Piacenza - Punto
Seta - Rainbow - Reggiani - Serikos - Shantung -
Soies de France
- Solstiss - Sophie Hallette - Sordevolo - Taroni -
Tessilcar - Tessitura
di Quaregna - Torello Viera - Verga - Zamori
Make-up
Francesca Tolot
per Freelancer
Prodotti "The
Professionals" di Diana De Silva
Hair-style
Aldo Coppola per
L'oréal Professionnel
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