MOMENTING THE MEMENTO
We need a post[mode]rn [Flo]re:science, a Renai[chance] for our city, actually looking like an [ego]nomically H&Mized Louis Vuit[town] tuned on a dead Chan[n]el n.5
A curatorial project starts when something sick has to be cured [or curated]. From George Bush’s shocking-and-astonishing Baghdad bombing night-time TV show, continuing on with liquid heavens of digital non-places, [...]
LONG = CHANGE
by Danilo Venturi – Polimoda Faculty
picture Central Saint Martins – February 2012
After a Middle Age characterized by a strong crisis of values, Fashion seems re-focused on its mission: to represent the theatre of reanimation where humans are ready to modify themselves for facing the future. Better late than never. Out of the last [...]
WHY CAN’T I BE YOU? by Danilo Venturi
Portraits by Ruggero Lupo Mengoni – collection by Alicia Declerck – styling Wowo Kraus – writing Danilo Venturi – models Niina Turunen & Alessandro Ferrara.
Photo: Nick Knight
As stated last July in my Contr[addiction]s, Florence is the new Antwerp [but also the new Lourdes]. Today it was Stephen Jones’ turn to get blessed by Polimoda’s overflowing new home room. A well deserved benediction because, as per words of Anna Piaggi, Mr. Jones has made the most beautiful hats in the [...]
THE SOUND OF FASHION [THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG]
Tomorrowing in one of the many sleepless nights, the owner of Art to Design galley, posted me an unexpected comment on the song I’m Older Now by Jay Jay Johanson sounding this way: “Listen to this track, the old Vivienne [Westwood] will appear in front of [...]
by Danilo Venturi
Nomadic on one side and minimal on the other. What was unified in the previous Pitti edition is divided again in the current one. It’s the game of innovation that plays with the convergence and the divergence, it’s the signal that the margins of menswear are going to be central in the [...]
ETERNAL LIFE
Last Friday we had an interesting moment of reflection with our students on the eternal life of a fashion brand, the relationship between its corporal existence strictly linked to the figure of the founder and its corporate aspects, in particular concerning the kind of management when the founder is alive and the exploitation [...]
FROM MAO TO NOW, FROM GHOST TO [D.R.A.G.]ON
by Danilo Venturi
Professor Juanjuan Wu in the book “Chinese Fashion. From Mao to Now” perfectly described the recent evolution of the Chinese aesthetics from the times of the Cultural Revolution up to current days. It’s an interesting reading for western fashion inside-outers because on one side what previously [...]
The totem is the symbol of a natural or supernatural entity, to which can be ascribed two different meanings in heathen religion.
Il totem è simbolo di un’entità naturale o soprannaturale riconducibile, nelle religioni pagane, a due accezioni. Si può trattare dello spirito del capostipite concretizzato in un monumento fallico, solitamente in pietra, che tiene unita la tribù attorno a un mito fondante e a riti che lo rafforzano ricordandolo. In questo caso, il totem svolge la [...]