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COLOURS:
tones.faded by time and light. The pale and neutral nuances are a basis for faded and dusty pastels like plaster faded by the sun.It is time to stop the schizophrenic zapping between the present and the past balanced between what has been and what will be. But memory cannot be wiped out, it is made of learned quotations that are timeless, of a limited romanticism that leads us towards a delicate and sophisticated, extremely feminine and sensual design. The warm colours reflect solar light, raw materials eroded by atmospheric agents are veiled with dust. Landscapes vibrate like mirages and are blurred by a play of lights and shadows. Sinuous undulations in continuous movement.
MATERIALS REDISCOVERING AND RESTORING:
finishes that embellish, restore and bring back splendour like the ancient frescoes with their worn out surfaces, faded by stonewashing, fading, rubbing, over-colouring. The opaque flaky and suede aspects will have a powdery, opaque appearance like flaking walls. Calfskins worked like opaque cowhide. Metallised faded vegetal, shadowy vegetal paints. Shiny natural snakeskin, faded and stonewashed small reptiles. Parchment paper, natural fibre, jute, raffia weaves, coconut matting. Slightly interwoven leather like raffia. Hand-made. Floral prints and soft and faded damasks like wallpaper. Golden shades and inclusions like gold leaf. Embroidered embossing.
CONTROLUCE - BACKLIGHTING
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"dull", deep colours flatter the strong and intellectual black. Deep, dark blues like eclipses oppose the dazzling backlighting: bright white. Violet and inky colours go well with lashes of red. The sun's shadow darkens the earth and the environment quivers with an enchanting black non-light. The shadows suddenly lengthen and make daylight seem like night, a strange and unreal, enchanted, theatrical light. lt is a time to reflect, a time for a sober sensuality coming from the sought-after, dark, contrast colours. A style that is simplified in its forms and colours, not minimal, but rather sought-after and that reinvents luxury with detachment standing out like a precious pearl in a sea of light and colour.
MATERIALS LUXURY AND PRECIOUSNESS:
Hence, great attention is paid to materials for this theme that is undoubtedly trend setting and top quality.The attention is again paid to opaque surfaces that are the counterpoint for bright touches and limited transparency, to shading and opalesque and pearly finishes on dark colours. Suedes and nabuks will look more like shiny and precious snakeskin, lacquered micro reptiles, such as tejus, shiny lacquer-effect soft leathers, shiny and glossy goatskin, elastic and transparent mirror lacquers, satin effects, laminated and glazed, opaque effect soft leathers. Micro paillettes, lacquered micro stitching, small pleats.
RESPIRO - BREATH
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clear and bright that recall pure air Light blue, green, clear neutral and limpid colours near fake, dark, deep and metallic blacks. Exhilarating and soft atmospheres like breezes of pure air. Light, oxygen, open spaces without limits, the pleasure of watching a hang-glider glide. Poetry and contemporaneity. Even technology refuses to show off openly and its research is brought towards something more lyrical. The new nature evolves through new bio-connections that strengthen and create new species and aim at perfecting the world that surrounds us. Light is a means that transports colour, the earth's atmosphere is like an enormous transparent and lightly coloured soap bubble: variable.
MATERIALS LIGHTENING AND DEMATERIALISING:
Thinner and thinner, suitable for being superimposed, or inflated, full of air. Perforated transparency, with small regular patterns. Artificial bulging, small bubbles like bubble pack full of air, small polka dots in transparent gel and silicon. Variable polka dots like soap bubbles. Dacron effects (sail cloth). Checks and stripes, two tone for aerial patterns. Gelatinous, laminate, silicon paints. Precious mottles. Metallic mirrorfinishes even perforated, especially on dark colours for the more sporty look. Gummed finishes. Soft and voluminous, gelatinous calfskin. Soft and bulging nabuk.
LIBERE INVENZIONE - FREE CREATIONS
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COLOURS:
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range of strong and vital multicolours, sometimes quite gaudy other
times ethnic or fresh like a bouquet of flowers.
Today's nomads: the fragrant creativity of street artists, the vitality
of jugglers, the magical cheerfulness of the circus, the passional gypsy
music. It is a melting, a short circuit between the genders, the transgressive
spirit of those who have no limits to the freedom of thinking, acting,
creating. It is the moment of creativity, of an absolutely imaginative
style, made of colour and imagination. The incentives grow from the
pleasure of looking for ideas in the most unlikely places, intersecting
folk, ethnic and the past.
MATERIALS MAXIMALISM AND CREATIVITY:
the unique features are colour and creativity. Opaque, bulging, syrupy calfskin. Lacquers, enamels, mother-of-pearl, like car bodies.Shiny, abrasive, lacquered and rubbery snake skins. Multicolour weaves in raffia and hide, reptiles and reptile prints to be put forward again or renewed with new bicolour or two tone treatments with floral overprints, flocks, and embroideries. Flowers in abundance, wallpaper style or cheerful and loud to superimpose checks, polka dots, stripes and free designs.
Polka dots and flower patterns in paints on suede for shiny and opaque effects, multicoloured rings through "DIP DYING soft leathers and double flakes with laser engraving (bicolour). Printed effects like works of art. Cut-out or printed lace effects on soft leather or suede to be used in transparency or superimposed.
Trend Selection
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Press Release
Milan, February 16, 2000