The background is of what you would not expect if you think of the glittering catwalks of high fashion, but the impact is really strong: black silhouettes move among the ruins of the mining village Asproni, a village "nestled in the green hills of Sulcis Iglesiente. object of an important recovery intervention ", tells ANSA the Sardinian designer Filippo Grandulli who has chosen this place for his new autumn-winter 2021/22 collection, managing to put together 40 professionals to make a 10 and a half minute fashion film on 23 April online on the website www.filippograndulli.it and on all social media channels.
The theme and title of the collection well represent the mood of this period in full pandemic: "Su Feli", or rather anger. "But it also expresses - underlines the fashion designer from Cagliari - that desire for revenge and recovery of those who have found themselves with a project that has been stopped for two years and have had to repress their creativity due to the Covid emergency".
The spotlight is therefore on the Asproni di Gonnesa village, in the locality of Seddas Moddizis. "A surreal scenario - confesses Grandulli - an example of mining architecture in the green hills of Sulcis Iglesiente".
Among the historic buildings, the church, the management offices, the villa, the school for the miners' children, on the heels covered with shoe covers the women of Grandulli walk in a dreamlike and mystical atmosphere, enliven the village with their total clothes. black from which the whiteness of the shirts emerges.
Original models enriched each time with printed fabrics with overlapping graphics that recall ancient jewelry, buttons, brooches. The Sardinian paper baskets by Angela Boeddu become hats, cascades of flowers garland the black earrings produced by Furighedda and covered in brocade. Precious details also on the neckline of the shirts, on which fragments of Sardinian wedding rings and other ornaments of gold or silver shine.
Filippo Grandulli plays on the unfinished with half-finished embroideries, worn-out jewels to give a sense of precariousness. A staff of 40 Sardinian professionals worked on the project, based on an idea by Daniele Coppi. On the notes of the song "Bellu" composed by DJ Marascia the rite of the parade takes place, giving shape to the desire to restart, to put the pieces back in place, to mend the tears of a long and suspended time, removed from art, from culture, to creativity.