. The Italian designer has been overwhelmed by what he described as “a storm of information” over the last few months, in which buzzwords like ‘digital’ and ‘innovation’ have been repeated again and again without any real meaning.
So, he took up playing the cello and started using his hands, a surprising rarity for designers these days. Romanticism — the nature-set, freedom-of-expression, slow-cooked kind — felt like the pertinent message for him to explore, largely as an antidote to the banality of our lives spent at home, logging on and off of Zoom calls., he certainly had. “Everything right now is about making things that are digital-friendly, just for the screen. We've been working with our hands.
But seriously, these are clothes that — although Francesco loathes buzzwords — are ideal for both jumping through the screenturning heads IRL. “They make you feel frivolous and a part of a romantic gesture,” he explained. There are XXL handbags, exaggerated puffer capes with fuzzy trims, artfully crinkled peasant dresses and enveloping knits with sculptural zip-up collars.
Francesco invited the world into his own home, via Zoom, the format we’ve all come to know so well, mainly for work meetings and awkwardly long quizzes and ‘drinks’. Francesco worked with Wu Tsang and Tosh Basco on capturing the models in parodies of old-school couture poses, and since last year, he has been working with creative consultant and
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