Altaroma 2021
PRESS RELEASE
The Academy of Fine Arts in Rome is pleased to present “PRIVATE4”, a video that concludes the educational programme of the Fashion Culture and Technology course.
Part of the ALTAROMA calendar, PRIVATE4 represents an opportunity to lay oneself bare, to look within, to listen to one’s emotions and obsessions, to create a path that leads each person, through a passion for fashion, a fascination with the manipulation of materials, the processing of fabrics, the cutting of shapes, to talk about their own identity.
Thirteen collections, entirely designed and created by third-year students, in which there is a strong link with each person’s deepest feelings, with their thoughts and their inner self.
Thirteen collections seen, filmed and narrated through the eyes of the Monkeys Video Lab Team, made up of former students of the Multimedia Arts course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
FEDERICA OLIVA
” 1 – Dream”
Heavy antique tapestry reworked on denim, trompe l’oeil shirts with a college vibe, dreamlike green and red fields explode with colour on a wide, sheet-white cotton dress, where time seems to unravel. A collection like a design and metaphorical journey into oneself, where the self grows and changes continuously, as does the dress, which becomes an expression of a sentimental and creative state in search of new worlds, while maintaining its purity.
GIULIA FASTELLINI
Antithesis
Soft and flowing dresses whose tie-dye prints reproduce the exact moment when the light meets the foliage of the trees, reflecting their shadow on the surface and creating an image with a strong chromatic contrast. All this is a graphic representation of what we see; it is not real, it is an interpretation of what our eyes capture. These plays of light and shadow create a rarefied and almost fairy-tale atmosphere. The nature expressed by my collection wants to appear ephemeral. I seek inspiration and beauty among the trees, and my goal has been to be light and respectful of the elements that the world offers us. My project is a synthesis of the intrinsic dualism of our being: light and shadow that accompany us day after day,
expressing our moods and giving shape to our inner world, making us as alive as the nature that surrounds us.
CLAUDIA LOCATELLI
/vi-rà-go/Feminine noun
A woman endowed with virile physical strength, courage and resolve, while retaining a strong, typically feminine sensuality. The collection stems from an analysis of the figure of the virago and aims to dismantle the stigmatisation of female sensuality, proposing bold yet delicate representations. The proposals range from references to the Middle Eastern world to the reinterpretation of historical garments, all accompanied by continuous references to female mysticism and witchcraft.
ARIANNA FERRARA
Nostalgie dans l’intimité
That which is secret, hidden deep within, exerts a fascination from which it is impossible to escape. The search for intimacy takes on the contours of a personal journey and generates extreme curiosity in the observer, as it is a balance between seduction and sweetness. A complex emotional vortex that mixes familiarity, love, protection and physicality. The underwear pieces capture these sensations, visible only to the chosen few, who travel on the wings of memories, even those not experienced, linked to the allure of the 1950s and 1960s, which conceal the bittersweet taste of nostalgia.
FRANCESCO DI DONNA
Renæssence
Discovering a divine essence within us. Feeling the call of God strongly. Obeying his commandment, one and only: Palingenesis. Honouring the god by expressing our essence, which is his: To be reborn is to be, to be Divine.
DOMITILLA DAMIANI
Fleeting encounter
The events of life and feelings are uncontrollable;
The fabrics of the collection are uncontrollable, writhing
like fluids. A fluid that does not passively adapt to the container.
It is the contrast (but also the encounter, however fleeting) between the will to
control and uncontrollable chaos, between a simple, united self and parts
of the self that are mobile, drifting or in turmoil.
CAMILLA FRASCA
Ceci est la couleur de mes rêves
In a perpetual circle with an ever more pressing rhythm like today’s society, paralysed by the construct of routine, the ‘Rêveur’ (dreamer) finds refuge in a dreamlike dimension on this side of the Schopenhauerian ‘Maya’s Veil’. The ultimate purpose of the garment itself is to represent the duality between the tangible sphere (reality) and the dreamlike sphere (dream), between good and evil, sacred and profane.
IAN VER LACERNA LORENZO
Teenager Riot
The collection is inspired by New Wave, characterised by provocative, antisocial and violent lyrics with a strong political and anarchic connotation. A break with the respectability of English society; common sense is distorted, the aim was to scandalise, provoke and annoy. Contamination is the key concept of the collection; the characteristic garments of male society are disrupted and contaminated through the use of the tie-dye technique. The shapes are disrupted, deconstructed and recomposed with “out-of-place” elements. The garments thus become decomposable, synonymous with duality, divided between the youthful rebellion typical of the genre and the affluent class with its double-breasted suits.
SUSANNA PICCHIAMI
Les jeunes idéaux
The collection aims to take a satirical look at young people by comparing two different generations: that of 1968 and that of today. From the former, those myths that marked an era are taken up, while from the latter, uncertainty and malleability emerge. However, both are united by the attention to the little things that characterise being young.
ERIKA CHIAVERINI
Upset Noise
Upset Noise is the beginning of a universe in which clothing is contextualised within an imaginary historical period, where uniforms coexist with classic garments and outline the identity of the characters. All this represents an interference, a distortion, within society, as the protagonists live in ambiguous situations and reject the compartmentalisation of the community, in particular the concept of gender. The collection is characterised by stripes reinterpreted in a dirty way, placed as an interruption to the monochrome of the dress.
LEONARDO FERRI
Sabba
Long, flowing black and red petticoats caress the tips of the ferns that line an avenue in the thick of a forest where a coven of witches parades in a procession. With their heads covered by large hats and their garments adorned with rows of braids, sparrow bones and embroideries of hares and goats, it is as if they are wearing their own spells. This was the macabre image that gave rise to the collection.
ANDREA MUGAVERO
Opulentia
The reference to abundance and glamour, so rich as to border on excess but in a form that recalls the “Femme Fatale”, fascinating, terrible and hypnotising, who makes men fall at her feet with the sole aim of destroying them. Fringes, cady and gloves are used as a sign of the union between opulence and the seductive woman.
AURORA PROMUTICO
Non-lieux
A continuous journey, a fruitless search for being. Amid the frenzy of non-places, men and women lose their identity, blending into the continuous acceleration of life and needs, continuing to hope for a change that will not always come.
PRIVATE4
curated by Alberto Moretti
Educational coordination:
Irene Cerrati, Sara Chiarugi, Edelweiss Molina
General coordination:
Edelweiss Molina
Video by Monkeys Video Lab
Photo by Giulia Blasi
Academy of Fine Arts in Rome
President: Alberta Campitelli
Teaching Director: Cecilia Casorati
Administrative Director: Rosa Sabina Passavanti
For the Hair & Make-up services, thanks to the PASSION4FASHION Team coordinated by Ramona Malaguti.
Fashion: at Altaroma, the students of the Academy of Fine Arts ‘walk the catwalk’ via streaming
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‘Private4’ for Altaroma on 20 February at 1:00 pm. In a video, the 13 collections designed and created by the third-year students of the Fashion Culture and Technology course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, also available on demand on the digitalrunway.altaroma.it platform, as part of Fashion Week. The project represents an opportunity to lay oneself bare, to look within, to listen to one’s emotions and obsessions, to create a path that leads each person, through a passion for fashion, a fascination with the manipulation of materials, the processing of fabrics, the cutting of shapes, to talk about their own identity.
Thirteen collections, entirely designed and created by third-year students, in which there is a strong link with each person’s deepest feelings, with their thoughts and their inner self. Thirteen collections seen, filmed and narrated through the eyes of the Monkeys Video Lab Team, made up of former students of the Multimedia Arts course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. “Now in its fourth edition, the project arose first and foremost from the desire to have the students tackle design that is not only theoretical and research-based, but also practical, so as to allow them to get involved with fabrics, volumes and fabric processing,” explains curator Alberto Moretti. “There is no theme to draw inspiration from; the important thing is that they lay themselves bare as creative individuals, that they narrate their imagination and that they make their proposal that identifies them.”
“This is the reason that leads the selected students to create capsule collections, which are very different from each other in terms of personality and style,” adds the project’s curator. “To be able to participate in the event, they must pass an initial selection, followed by two more, and present a portfolio of thirty outfits, the concept of the collection and research mood boards, material and colour charts, technical drawings and an outfit created with a small photo shoot to support their idea.
“They have more or less six months,” he concludes, “to create their collection, consisting of five final outfits to be presented, normally, in a fashion show featuring them as the stars. For this year, we have made a video with thirteen short stories that tell the story of each individual capsule, with the help of the Monkeys Video Lab team, made up of former students of the Multimedia Arts course at our Academy.”
Heavy antique tapestry reworked on denim, trompe l’oeil shirts with a college vibe, dreamlike green and red fields explode with colour on a wide, sheet-white cotton dress, where time seems to unravel for the ‘Dream’ collection by Federica Oliva. A collection like a design and metaphorical journey into oneself, where the self grows and changes continuously, as does the dress, which becomes an expression of a sentimental and creative state in search of new worlds, while maintaining its purity.
With ‘Antithesis’, Giulia Fastellini has imagined soft and flowing dresses whose tie-dye prints reproduce the exact moment when the light meets the foliage of the trees, reflecting their shadow on the surface and creating an image with a strong chromatic contrast. All this is a graphic representation of what we see; it is not real, it is an interpretation of what our eyes capture. These plays of light and shadow create a rarefied and almost fairy-tale atmosphere. The nature expressed by my collection wants to appear ephemeral. I seek inspiration and beauty among the trees, and my goal has been to be light and respectful of the elements that the world offers us.
“My project,” she explains, “is a synthesis of the intrinsic dualism of our being. Light and shadow that accompany us day after day, expressing our moods and giving shape to our inner world, making us as alive as the nature that surrounds us.”
With ‘/vi-rà-go/Feminine noun’, Claudia Locatelli has imagined a woman endowed with virile physical strength, courage and resolve, while retaining a strong, typically feminine sensuality. The collection stems from an analysis of the figure of the virago and aims to dismantle the stigmatisation of female sensuality, proposing bold yet delicate representations. The proposals range from references to the Middle Eastern world to the reinterpretation of historical garments, all accompanied by continuous references to female mysticism and witchcraft.
That which is secret, hidden deep within, exerts a fascination from which it is impossible to escape. This is the theme chosen by Arianna Ferrara in ‘Nostalgie dans l’intimité’. The search for intimacy in her show takes on the contours of a personal journey and generates extreme curiosity in the observer, as it is a balance between seduction and sweetness. A complex emotional vortex that mixes familiarity, love, protection and physicality. The underwear pieces capture these sensations, visible only to the chosen few, who travel on the wings of memories, even those not experienced, linked to the allure of the 1950s and 1960s, which conceal the bittersweet taste of nostalgia.
‘Divine’ collection imagined by Francesco Di Donna in ‘Renæssence’. “Discovering a divine essence within us. Feeling the call of God strongly,” explains the young designer. “Obeying his commandment, one and only. Palingenesis. Honouring the god by expressing our essence, which is his. To be reborn is to be, to be Divine”.
The events of life and feelings are uncontrollable. The fabrics of the collection are uncontrollable, writhing like fluids. A fluid that does not passively adapt to the container. It is the contrast, but also the encounter, however fleeting, between the will to control and uncontrollable chaos, between a simple, united self and parts of the self that are mobile, drifting or in turmoil. These are the garments imagined within an Incontro Labile by Domitilla Damiani.
In a perpetual circle with an ever more pressing rhythm like today’s society, paralysed by the construct of routine, the ‘Rêveur’ (dreamer) finds refuge in a dreamlike dimension on this side of the Schopenhauerian ‘Maya’s Veil’. The ultimate purpose of the garment itself is to represent the duality between the tangible sphere (reality) and the dreamlike sphere (dream), between good and evil, sacred and profane. Camilla Frasca has imagined for her collection ‘Ceci est la couleur de mes rêves’.
The collection created by Ian Ver Lacerna Lorenzo (‘Teenager Riot’) is inspired by New Wave, characterised by provocative, antisocial and violent lyrics with a strong political and anarchic connotation. A break with the respectability of English society. Common sense is distorted, the aim was to scandalise, provoke and annoy. Contamination is the key concept of the collection.
The characteristic garments of male society are disrupted and contaminated through the use of the tie-dye technique. The shapes are disrupted, deconstructed and recomposed with “out-of-place” elements. The garments thus become decomposable, synonymous with duality, divided between the youthful rebellion typical of the genre and the affluent class with its double-breasted suits.
‘Les jeunes idéaux’ is the inspiring theme for the garments created by Susanna Picchiami. The collection aims to take a satirical look at young people by comparing two different generations. That of 1968 and that of today. From the former, those myths that marked an era are taken up, while from the latter, uncertainty and malleability emerge. However, both are united by the attention to the little things that characterise being young.
‘Upset Noise’ by Erika Chiaverini is the beginning of a universe in which clothing is contextualised within an imaginary historical period, where uniforms coexist with classic garments and outline the identity of the characters. All this represents an interference, a distortion, within society, as the protagonists live in ambiguous situations and reject the compartmentalisation of the community, in particular the concept of gender. The collection is characterised by stripes reinterpreted in a dirty way, placed as an interruption to the monochrome of the dress.
Long, flowing black and red petticoats caress the tips of the ferns that line an avenue in the thick of a forest where a coven of witches parades in a procession. With their heads covered by large hats and their garments adorned with rows of braids, sparrow bones and embroideries of hares and goats, it is as if they are wearing their own spells. This was the macabre image that gave rise to the collection, the ‘Sabba’ by Leonardo Ferri.
The reference to abundance and glamour, so rich as to border on excess but in a form that recalls the ‘Femme Fatale’, fascinating, terrible and hypnotising, who makes men fall at her feet with the sole aim of destroying them. Fringes, cady and gloves are used as a sign of the union between opulence and the seductive woman. This is the woman imagined by Andrea Mugavero in ‘Opulentia’.
And finally, Aurora Promutico. Her ‘Non-lieux’ is a continuous journey, a fruitless search for being. Amid the frenzy of non-places, men and women lose their identity, blending into the continuous acceleration of life and needs, continuing to hope for a change that will not always come.