NICCOLÒ
PASQUALETTI
The fluidity of the stone and the sensuality of water. As in sculpture, when these elemental opposite are unified they speak to an essential truth: a destabilising balance that Niccolò Pasqualetti through their design. Their approach is an exercise in active simplicity. Unseen shapes emerge from intuitions, an ergonomics of design which enables a deep integration into everyday life.
The body is respected as a whole, sacred and invisible. The art forms of clothing and jewellery are un differential in Pasqualetti's vision. Each acquires the qualities of the other: longevity communes with ephemerality. By embracing the spontaneity of found objects, Pasqualetti has unearthed a new perspective on the concept of the one-of-kind piece. Although forms come together in concrete ways, they soon enough change again and nothing is ever finished. With experience as a designer at The Row and Loewe, Pasqualetti's work is distinguished by its full embrace of ambivalent androgyny, rooted in biomorphism. Trained in Venice and Belgium, he went on to undertake his M.A. in womenswear at Central Saint Martins. Under Stella McCartney scholarship he intensified his commitment to the sustainability of methods and materials, with has always been a guiding philosophy for his practice.
Fluida
Responding the modern prescriptions of gender, this collection looks towards nature to explore its ambiguities. The primordial forms of Jean Arp, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth are interpreted through garment construction - vessels to carry the client to a more fluid future. The Arte Povera movement revealed the dignity of commonplace things and inspired the use of found objects. Scarp metals, wooden pottery ribs, and old sweaters are given new meaning as part of the structure of the garments.Imagining a future that rejects the assumption of technology and returns to primeval meanings and a peaceful collaboration between humanity and nature.
The Black Place
Strange shapes come into focus against the muted landscape of the black place. This is the site of some of the most potent works of Georgia O'Keeffe, muse of this collection. The biomorphic forms she found in those hills are reimagined in sweeping garment construction and in the wooden adornments meant to be worn like talismans. Georgia made her own clothes and this spirit is invoked by the use of the natural materials. Raw-edged cotton and treated velvet give the impression of the weathering of her desert. O'Keeffe lived a life unseparate from art; her way of dressing was consonant with her way of painting. This collection pays homage to her wardrobe in all its modesty and practicality. But it also seek to capture something for her presence, her inner strength.
"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage." -
Georgia O'Keeffe
