DATE: 24th October 2024. PLACE: Graduate Fashion Italia ( Room 2100) TIME: 17.00
I; Daniele Venturelli
We’re always excited to see what comes out of Graduate Fashion Italia ! Their mash-up of prim and proper designs, classic Italian tailoring and wild, creative exploration always holds the promise of the extraordinary and unexpected. And the Institute Europeo Di Design Graduate 2024 show did not disappoint, lightness, modernity and new beginnings was the general statement after the show -but the collections from Adele Domini, Leonardo Fizialetti, Marco Servedio & Matteo Gagliano were very forward thinking and made you ask the very questions ‘ Is This Fashion’ It’s not every graduate fashion show you see a collections that feel like a new chapter opening in the history of fashion.
Adele Domini
Object
Objects regulate social relations in contemporary times, influencing meanings, beliefs and habits. Individual creativity becomes essential to create values and languages, giving life to objects as indefinite forms to be reinterpreted according to multiple perspectives. OBJECT stimulates individuality in an increasingly impersonal present, offering new ways of interacting and thinking. The garments are born from a study of flat two-dimensional geometric shapes, initially devoid of meaning, whose true value emerges when they are worn
Leonardo Fizialetti
Inhabitants
“Abitanti” was born from the desire to investigate and tell the relationship between us and the objects that fill our lives, preserve our memories and project pieces of our identity into space, sometimes making us dependent. The collection focuses on the home environment and the oscillating balance of the relationship with it: emulating the shapes of the elements typical of homes, from the drapes of curtains to those of clothes placed and accumulated on the handrail of the stairs, to the linen in drawers waiting to be worn, to the shirt of an old relative stolen from an old wardrobe.
Marco Servedio
3K
Kitanai (dirty), Kiken (dangerous), Kitsui (demanding). The essence of this workwear collection, potentially wearable by anyone, comes from the Japanese definition of the worker. 3K uses technical fabrics (Majotech) with high performance features, resistant to abrasion and water, breathable and therefore suitable for every season, doubly protective against atmospheric agents. Looking at innovation and sustainability, thanks to the insertion of batteries and photovoltaic panels in strategic points capable of powering LEDs, the garments self-produce the necessary light, recharging during the day and activating during the night to ensure greater safety and visibility for workers.
Matteo Gagliano
Circadian Rhythm
A dreamlike collection, a tribute to the nocturnal, to what comes to life when it gets dark, on a journey to “unlikely” places accompanied by the ancestral circadian rhythm. Damask and raw sheep’s wool, that is, the inside and outside of the pillow, symbol of sleep, blend together to create jackets and vests. An ode to the intimacy of bedrooms, to blankets that become clothes, to nocturnal disguises, an opportunity to tell the elusive and nameless energies of the night, which at the light of dawn vanish into a memory, like a dream.
