Wearing a punchily mismatched scarlet track jacket and yellow track pants, 25 year-old Leonardo Bianchi slipped down his face mask and picked up the mic. “Young Italian people who want to continue and develop the work of their fathers and grandfathers have a lot of passion and feel a lot of responsibility. So thanks to Dolce & Gabbana for giving us the chance to show what we do.
This was Wednesday afternoon, shortly before the first show of an Alta Moda presentation that took Dolce & Gabbana’s post-lockdown show total to five;, a July menswear collection shown in the grounds of the medical school whose COVID-19 research Dolce & Gabbana is funding, and this first sortie out of Milan. So many shows, and so fast? “When something terrible happens you feel it. And when you can start again you don’t stay at home crying; you start again.
Both shows were held both within government health guidelines—yes, there were Dolce facemasks to wear when required—and at municipal invitation: Florence’s mayor Dario Nardelli sat front row at both. In a speech before the first observed: “Here in Florence, from the bubonic plague emerged new ways of thinking about art, science, and philosophy… Florence is not only a center of the past but also of the present and the future.
Joining the dots between past and present to chart a course ahead was the agenda behind an event that linked Alta Moda’s thousand-plus roster of international super-rich clients to a group of 38 small, family-run Florentine artisan bottegas. Dolce & Gabbana was introduced to these via Pitti Immagine, and the list included shoemakers, perfumers, leatherworkers, winemakers, basket weavers, silversmiths, feather workers, and a goldsmith.
Dolce chimed in: “And Giorgini was closely connected to the artisans of Florence, who integrated what they had in their bottegas, even simple materials like raffia, into the work.” This Dolce Alta Moda collection, they stressed, had been executed by artisans of their own home bottega: A newly assembled corps of 50 employees, all aged under 30 and dedicated to various forms of embroidery, enabled this to be the first all in-house fabricated Alta Moda collection.
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