ANTONIO GRIMALDI

 

TRIBUTE TO SIXTIES

2015 SPRING-SUMMER READY TO WEAR COLLECTION

 

 

 

Multifaceted inspirations and explicit references to the 60’s make up the Antonio Grimaldi Spring-Summer 2015 collection, to be shown in the magical salons of the Italian Embassy in Paris. Mina’s “Le mille bolle blu”, the irreverent icons of a fascinating androgynous moment like Twiggy, an original mélange of aesthetics, creative and stylistic.

For the next spring-summer Antonio Grimaldi contemporarily reinterprets the glamorous look of made in the 60’s. Curated by Maestro Sergio Valente and Intercoiffure Italia; the hair is combed in lateral lines with short tails adorned with metal rings. Make up follows the fil rouge of the hair styling through the revisitation to the period, with soft colors and shades of bronze.

Shirts, inlaid with ruffles of tulle and laser cut georgette, alternating with damask pendants with Mikado, becomes a polo to then transform for the night into a oversized hood, also embroidered and inlaid with tulle and organza with mini shorts in gazar.

Mini shift dresses, as well as the forms of oversized sculptures or printed tunics, presented with mini waist belts in neoprene give way to skirts in gazar with balloon effect that returns in long dresses.

For the evening, Antonio Grimaldi plays on transparencies and volumes. Lightweight fabrics, almost impalpable to the touch confers an almost sacred sensuality to the silhouette in a playful juxtaposition of fullness and emptiness where proportions and lengths, carefully balanced between tailoring and spirited rebellion seem to be sculpted textures on the body. Dresses in oval shape or in draped jersey and georgette alternate with sequence with double chromatic effect. Jersey returns in blouses that are cleverly reinterpreted with master tailoring. Experimentation with fabrics has not been overlooked, neoprene with Sangallo effect, also in an “over” version lined with a contrasting silk mikado.

Prints are used in the reproduction of ties from a mens wardrobe, for a woman with a reborn sensuality. Antonio Grimaldi mixes the influences of Pop Art, with an understanding of its reproducibility in the contemporary world, shown in the drip technique both in mini and long dresses.

The chromatic palette ranges from bright colors and metallic shades to blue the shade of oil, from powder blue to teal, olive, lime, pale yellow and pink. As in the srunning photographic works of Terry O’Neill, the inevitable colors of white and black. White, is candid, is pure, is the purest.

Black in transparence assumes the color of the underlying texture.

The androgynous 60’s girls of Antonio Grimaldi soar on platform sandals in soft colors like pearl gray, pale pink and beige embellished with metal profiles. Bracelets are plated in gold and for the evening diamond earrings are oversized. Bags in long size, is an elongated and rolled gold clutch.