Fashion is an eternal restart.
Not next winter according to Paul Andrew, the creative director of Salvatore Ferragamo.
“
In fashion, the past exerts a gravity - we are always attracted by it
, he confirms in the note of intent of the show broadcast on the internet this Saturday.
For this fall winter 2021-22 collection, I wanted to reverse this physique.
The aim was to create a collection that sees the present through the prism of the future.
For this collection called "Future Positive", I imagined the contours of today's uniforms - business, military, evening and for the practice of sport - as the vestiges of a forgotten past, freed from all association of class, color or creed.
"
An elegant leather look from the fall winter 2021-2022 collection Salvatore Ferragamo Salvatore Ferragamo
Inspired by science fiction cinema, from
Bienvenue à Gattaca (1997)
to
Until the End of the World
(1991) via the
Matrix
trilogy
(1999)
, the American designer sketches a neofuturist locker room using the codes of army locker rooms, motorcycles, athletics, scuba diving ... Perched on the roofs of a
virtual
Metropolis
, emerging from a white tube of light like
2001, the Space Odyssey,
these women in long jersey dresses offset from biker boots and these men in mohair knitwear and plastic-coated work pants follow in the footsteps of dramatic music.
The radical and monochrome silhouettes (maybe a little too much?) Are linked.
Strange clothes adorned with woolen fringes pass.
A silver chain mail worn directly on a mannequin's skin covered with tone-on-tone makeup.
Despite a few suits and overcoats with minimalist and elegant lines, it is difficult to find the spirit of the Florentine institution, famous first for its shoes worn by the most beautiful glories of Hollywood before declining its dolce vita in a ready-to-wear - bourgeois and relaxed wear that put the house in orbit.
Sweater dress decorated with wool fringes from the Fall Winter 2021-2022 collection Salvatore Ferragamo Salvatore Ferragamo
Since the start of the pandemic, it seems accused of the blow of the health crisis and had announced a short time ago, by press release, a turnover at half mast for the year 2020. Not sure however whether it is by taking this route (galactic) that the label of the famous shoemaker renews with a brighter future.
