“Paint” photography by Sølve Sundsbø for “Numéro” magazine ,mixed by me with marsh mellows |
Hanno il pudico candore di una bambola viziata, di una Lolita stanca, di una Alice spaesata e insofferente.
“Alice is out” illustration by Elisa Gibaldi (the author) |
“Lost in Wonderland” part of a series of illustrations by Natalie Shau |
Persa ormai la piacevole dolcezza originaria, la spensieratezza di un richiamo infantile e giulivo, resta l’evocazione del colore. Ma svuotato del suo significato e del suo vero valore.
Simulacro della dolcezza del ricordo, il pastello ci permette ancora di essere aggrappati all’immagine di un’umanità perfetta e sorridente, di un passato che in realtà non è mai esistito.
Glynis Carpenter Stefan S. Zomer 2008 Juliette Fazekas by Emilio Tini for D Magazine |
“Pastel girl” illustration by Elisa Gibaldi (the author) |
La consapevolezza del pericolo nascosto in questa visione zuccherosa e “pastellosa” è quasi arrivata improvvisamente.
La nostra società contemporanea, che viene definita “fluida” come il miele, si è resa conto del dolce veleno instillato nelle nostre vite, della nostra identità costruita sulle fondamenta cristalline di una casina di marzapane.
Ci vestiamo ancora di colori pastello, ma oggi più che mai il nostro sguardo è disincantato, il nostro pensiero disilluso.
Nhykor In Bloom for the lab magazine june 2013 ? Mesmerizing Magnolia Headpiece by Noel Stewart |
Le sue creazioni sono state presentate recentemente in una sfilata ai “Feeric Fashion Days“ ad Alba Iulia in Romania.
Andrea descrive così il concept della sua “$6.66 ready to wear collection”:
Fatti propri i vani valori dell’apparire, il progetto indaga sullo stile underground dal sapore basic con connotazioni di quella cultura urban/street dell’ondata anni 90, citando la nouvelle vague, diario intimo di una generazione nuova disinvolta e inquieta.”
Andrea Zanatelli |
Ok, now we have to low the level of glucose.
The pastel colors, in the meaning of contemporary fashion, have the cloying taste of boring perfection of metropolitan cities like Miami and Los Angeles.
They have modest candor of a spoiled doll, of a tired Lolita, or a disoriented and impatient Alice in Wonderland.
The pastel color, pink, blue, or green as it is, became iconographic, totemic.
Now lost the original pleasant sweetness, the thoughtlessness of a childhood and joyful recall, remains the evocation of color. But it emptied of its meaning and its true value.
Sugar overdose
The awareness of the hidden danger in this saccharine and pastel vision is almost suddenly arrived.
Our contemporary society, which is called “fluid“ as honey, realized of the sweet poison instilled in our lives, of our identity built on crystalline foundations of a small house of marzipan.
We still dress in pastel colors, but today more than ever our eyes are disenchanted, our thinking is disillusioned.
ROSE WITH THORNS
Andrea Zanatelli, promising designer only twenty years old that I had the pleasure to meet at Haute Future Fashion Academy, has created a collection which perfectly embodies this image of a sulky and bored contemporary teenager.
His creations were recently presented in a fashion show at the “Feeric Fashion Days“ in Alba Iulia in Romania.
Andrea describes in this way the concept of his “$ 6.66 ready to wear collection“:
“The sluggishness of rosy lazy colors, apathetic and almost indifferent, blend in outfits melancholically inconclusive with wrong effects, visualnfalse notes, laden with a sense of bad taste, chasing around a continuous and redundant try to emerge, where cynicism is the only philosophy embraced. Got their the vain values of appearance, the project investigates on the underground style with basic flavor connotations of that culture urban/street of the 90s years wave, citing the nouvelle vague, diary a of casual and uneasy“.
I don’t think so. As always happens in the circle of fashion, colors take their revenge, and sooner or later pastel colors will resume their innocence. But perhaps will serve other times, that leave space to serenity and free dreaming.