Current events burst onto the catwalks of Milan Fashion Week by Antonio Marras who makes Eleonora d'Arborea, medieval princess of Sardinia, who in the thirteenth century promulgated a law that required the rapist to compensate his victim, his muse for the collection for the next winter.
"Those who do our job - says the Sardinian designer backstage at the show, 'interpreted' by Filippo Timi and Anna Della Rosa - cannot be separated from what happens around them, from national and international situations. It's not that doing fashion means isolating yourself , and live in a fairy world of candied fruit. Fashion is the spirit of who we are, and the restitution of what we feel, is a language, an alphabet that helps us communicate. And it communicates what is the spirit of times in which we live. Which are not truly wonderful times. What strikes me most these days is the violence against women and all these conflicts that are tearing the world apart. We cannot - he underlines - be separated from the situations that concern us even indirectly, by which we are bombarded every day."
So his women are a bit princesses and a bit warriors, with ruffs, medieval surplices recreated in fabric, precious quills, embroidery and trains, lace and headdresses such as helmets.
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