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.
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