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Women's Collection spring/summer 1999
"Going over the images of
my twenty years in fashion, I thought at length about the nature of ready
to wear. About what it entails: quality, elegance, design in all possible
expressions. This is why - guided by the "architectural" vision of my work
that has helped me give shape to creative imagination, sculpt the material
in an unusual way, find new foulard open to individual interpretation and
enjoyment, offer innovative expressions of the aura of couture - I chose
to dedicate this collection to the concept of "modernity exceptional".
Where various clothes fulfill a demand for beauty and luxury.
While I feel a vital need
for structure, I also experience a compulsion for fantasy and emotion.
To translate, necessarily,
into impulses of ultra femininity and joy. The joy of sparking pleasure,
of exuding allure. It's an alchemy arising from a mixture of feelings and
techniques. Using fabrics and materials with great subtlety. Creating evident,
transparent systems of construction. Exploiting the air around through
gentle movement. Imagining cones in a quest for new volumes. Ranging beyond
the limits and weights of materials through the geometry of design... Yet
all in a natural atmosphere of skin-tanning-and-smoothing sun, of calm
and warmth. Of magical colors like coral, fuchsia, pink. Of unusual substances
reminiscent of arbors and trellises.
Like raffia, a delicate
scratch..."
Lightness and transparency.
Loose jackets in a gazar
at once sheer and taut thanks to full texture paths of stitchings. Raincoats
in ambertone india-rubber and rubberized gazar. Shirts and slacks in a
weightless washed taffeta. Quasi-biker blousons in a line supple leather,
no lining. Alligator cut up and put scale by scale on stretch tulle T-shirts,
or firmly all in one piece for conical miniskirts low-slung on hips.
A realm beyond shape.
Urge for freedom from definite
criteria, ergo geometric cuts of cloth for easy-drape shirts and
sections of circles for skirts pinned at waist or hip. Simple rectangles
of material with drawstrings, joints, overlappings. Organza with piano
wire for a surface in movement. Knits in the form of body draping
bands of pleats, but strawlike. A new idea in jackets with striking stand-up
collars creating new neclines in back; plus the sweet caress of a balloon
effect rather than the usual rigidity. Dresses and tops free of shoulders
& co. in favor of a strapless look.
Unforeseen alchemies.
Black lacquered metal for
fully studded surfaces, for magical galuchas, for ribbons sewn to form
holes and slits revealing Hashes of skin. Sartorial-technique bastings,
marks and bands for the latest in patterns and embroideries. Also on the
gray denim of jeans furrowed in contrast by stark stitchings. Fanciful
clouds of new torn taffeta. There-but-not-there shoes with stretch fleshtone
uppers and with a whimsical dusting of dull gold on heels. The surprise
of a dull metal bag, almost a jewel...
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