12 avant-garde fashion shows at FASHION GRADUATE ITALIA you should see (part 2)

In Milan the school presented really eclectic and creative graduate collections:

• AMALIA PIERANTONI “Un bout de ciel”: an experimental collection, where the
  protagonist is the laser cut on wool that wants to recreate the idea of holes on pure soft colors through which
  it’s possible to glimpse the infinite and intangible dimension. Sky prints on lightweight and transparent materials like organza express this conceptual
  innovation of creating a utopian sweet and serene world that escapes from reality. A piece of sky.

• ARIANNA DI MAIO “Stay woolish”: playing with wool yarns, the collection transmits the desire for a return to the past with elements of
  modernity and creativity, mixing traditional points and techniques
  with a most innovative process of craft
  experimentation, obtaining unique pieces that simulate the industrial production
  following perfectly the female silhouette.

• CARLA ZAZO “Distopia“: a strong denounce of the decadence of society and the abused control by political institutions, a collection that shows a post-war and apocalyptic future, with references to cinema, punk aesthetic and masters of avant-garde fashion like Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens and Rei Kawakubo. Dedicated to a strong woman who wants to be unique and hidden to society at the same time, because her beauty is innate and doesn’t need to be displayed, through dark colors, masks and accessories similar to modern armours.

• DAVIDE FAVETTA “Le jardin de monsieur D.”: a urban garden that express the contrasts between reality and imagination, streeetwear and romance through wild flowers that grows breaking the rigid structures of architectural city landscapes. A luxurious triumph of floral brocades and bouquets, ancient effect matelassé fabrics, embroidery and precious embellishments, an expression of past glories interpreted in a contemporary key.

• MARIKA GENCO “Variability”: a celebration of a strong woman who is not afraid to dare using and interpreting with her bold style the classic pieces of male wardrobe, playing with unusual combinations, experimental cuts and asymmetries, with a clear choise of a color duo in black and white and decise accessories.

• MICHELA CAVALIERE “Jungle Reinassance”: a really energetic collection that has two opposite souls mixed together. order and chaos. One one side the romantic 3-d flowers and floral prints, exotic, lush and wild, on the other the urban silhouettes, straight and solid, with a basic and clear color palette mixed with touches of deep forest green and vibrant red.

• NATASCHA WANVERSTRAUT “Giraffe Escape”: a surreal escape from the chaos and pressure of urban world, dominated by an invasive technology. The solution is a refuge into a wild and funny alternative world, where animals and flowers plays toghether to create a joyful place, through the use of giraffe colorful prints and black and white flowers.

• ROBERTA ALTRUDA “Psycho fashion therapy”: can a sensorial stimulation improve the sensation of well-being of a man? The designer thinks yes, and with her collection provides many kinds of antistress garments, simply making an attentive choice of materials. Soft suede leathers and padded fabrics stimulate the sense of touch, natural inspired prints relax the eyes, oversize shapes give comfort to the body and freedom to its movements, while masks protect our humanity from external reality.

• ROSSELLA AMATO “Biomimetic fashion”: a conceptual reasoning about two different worlds, fashion and biological, that in this collection seem to find a common point. Studying the adherence characteristics of minor plants that inhabit the undergrowth, the connection of botanical elements with fashion is done. Clothes that become the support for the growth of the plants, and vegetal organisms that become three-dimensional decorations of the dresses, in a perfect symbiosis, called biomorphism.

The Mediterran countries are lands of creativity and HARIM EUROMEDITERREAN ACADEMY celebrates the connection between different culters with an international approach. Located in Catania and Tripoli, the school gives the chance to its students of being involved into an environment full of creativity and stimulus thanks to the meeting of different realities. Specialized in the educational field of fashion, interior design, product design and visual communication, the school offers also  interesting courses of jewelry and photography, 4 or 3-years academic courses, experimental masters and biannual or annual specializing courses, with professional teachers coming from the major fashion and communicative sectors, to better connect the students to the productive world.

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At Fashion Graduate Italia the school presented the collections of 9 young girls, all prominsing designers. 

• ALESSIA AVELLONE “Ανδρεας“: inspired by the play “The Pleasure” of the great Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio, the designer celebrate the connection between male and female nature with an androginous style, that unifies love and death, spirituality and passion. This menswear collection is all except banal, rich as it is of cultural references, historical inspirations, deep conceptual reasonings. The result is a man who wears oversize destructured frock jackets mixed to feminine victorian elements, steampunk details and strong colors, with a sense of uniqueness really impressive.

• BARBARA TRIMBOLI “Benthos”: an equilibrate synthesis of realism and romanticism, perfectly expressed by Nature through a recall to the beauty of a rich seafloor. Represented by fringes colored in coral pink and red, aqua green and purple, that move the clothes with incredible lightness, these sea creatures dance and celebrate a life spent with lightheartness.

• CARLA SALERNO “Antonymy”: a fashion journey between two different artistic movements, Ukiyo and Impressionism, connecting west and east in a unique tale that speaks about cultural and aesthetic exchanges. From Japan the designer takes the solid color palette, the graphic use of black, yellow and sky blue, the kimono sleeves and the geometrical shapes, while from the west she takes the modernity of denim fabrics.

• GIUDITTA CORPACI ” Sakura (kuro)”: the strong values of a samurai warrior and the enchanted and ephemeral femininity of a cherry blossom, these are the two opposite elements inspired by Japan at the basis of this collection. Designed for a combative woman, determinate, pure and honest, who wear geometrical shapes, armour-like parts, rigid fabrics and, at the opposite, the ligh pleated chiffon for blouses and dresses.

• GIULIA FAZZIO “Line”: art and nature, represented by Antoni Gaudì with his desctructured shapes that wanted to rebuild the natural enviroment, and the research of minimal lines that reveal a deep meditation on basic elements of Nature itself. Lines become the protagonists of the collection, straigh, fluid or uniform, they connected all the elements of the outfits arriving at the common style that recall the praticality of sportswear.

• GIULIA MANGANO “Catch my brain”: the mental chaos of a woman becomes a decoration on the body, a psychological necessity of being showed to be cancelled. Inspired by the movie “Girl. Interrupted”, the clothes represent the double personality of this woman, androgynous and sporty, timid and flashy, free and constricted at the same time, through the use of doubled fabrics, chaotic handmade prints and transformable effects.

• IDA MUCCIO “Resurface”: beyond the surface of normality there’s our most intimate nature, the animal, that doesn’t have morality or mental structures. The designer, with a collection that has a gothic taste mixed with 19th century and punk reminescences, investigates on this contrapposition through a study about the female strong character of the history, able to sacrifice their natural instict in favor of the family.

• ROSSELLA COSTA “Perceive me”: in a world in whic every feeling and emotion must be shared with the web, is there the possibility to live our personal mood, to enjoy the journey of this life?  Starting by the concept of the exploration of the world through the perceptions and with references to the futurism and the African War, the designer makes a journey through the men’s wardrobe enriched by pockets and spaces in which collect all the events of our life, as cultural baggage to bring with us.

• SIMONA LIPERA “Lili Marleen”: the audacity of the female dresses in the Roaring Twenties and the sensuality of the Thirties, interpreted by the myth of Marlene Dierich, are the focal point of this glam collection, designed for an iconic woman who can wear with sensual nochalance the panty-suit or a luxurious fur, with a vintage allure that emphasize the female shapes.

Founded in 1980 and located in the pictoresque Navigli zone of Milan, NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti is the largest private academy in Italy and it’s internationally renowned for the elevate quality standard of academic methodology. With 3-years bachelor courses and 2-years masters, the school is focused on an innovative spirit that combines theory with artistic and professional practice, thanks to the strong relationships with the major companies and the emphasis on real-world projects proposed to the students by indusry itself. 

The main theme of the collection presented at Fashion Graduate Italiais “Migration“, seen as a reflection about the transfer of experiences, ideas and knowledges between mens.

• AGNESE BECCATTI “My family goes to New Zealand”: a tale about migration with a personal interpretation of the emotions and real life experiences of the designer.

• ENRICO MICHELETTO: one of the most extravagant and creative menswear collection seen this year, with historical reminescences and suggestive miscellaneous of female and male.

• MATTEO DE TOME & GIUSEPPE CASAFINA “1984 divieto di sosta per cessata attività Parigi”: starting from “1984” by George Orwell the collection is an ironic reflection about totalitarism, consumistic omologation, obligations and prohibitions of the society in which we are living and our absurde conviction of being free.

• HELENA PARDO MARIN “Pic a soul”: through the life experiences of Pablo Picasso, the designer makes a journey towards the most intimate essence of the artist. The collection follows his evolution, exploring the cold colors and the gloomy prints of the Blue period, the idialliac and soft tones of Pink period up to the geometric lines and layers of prints and surfaces of the Cubist period.

• LUIS MANUEL LOPEZ LUNA: femininity is far from stereotypes and passes indifferently from delicate laces, to courageous transparencies and masculine garments reinterpreted with extravagant details and styling.

• MIHALY DOMOKOS: man is a traveller and brings with him all the baggage of his journeys, mixing elements taken by different cultures.

• OANA JUGANARU: knitwear and handmade weaving techniques creates the illusion of a primitive dream, with delicate silhouettes and colors that transform raw materials into something really special.

• ROBERTO NIZZARI “Le (s) Fils”: the collection is inspired by the book “Les infants son terribles” by Jean Cocteau and the opposition between an irrational and a rational vision of the world, represented by the use of classic male fabrics matched to pvc accessories and exaggerated proportions.

• SIMONE ANTONINI: who sayd that a man must wear only straight and rigid clothes? The collection exalts the fluidity of the shapes and the transformation of classic garments into something different.

• TOSCA CANCLINI “C’era una volta…Hotel Tiepol…Via Bambini 17”: a sensible journey at Hotel Tiepolo, where the designer lived her childhood. Colors and  shapes testify all the events she lived, in a continuous opposition between the innocence of childhood and maturity, dream and reality, interpreted with an ironic and bizare touch.

• YI XUAN WANG “Colonia Dignidad”: for her collection the designer is inspired by the homonym movie, based on real life events, with a former Nazi migrates to Chile setting up a camp, while a female prisoner never looses hope through the ordeal.

I’ll wait you really soon with the graduate collections of other interesting fashion schools!