As in the most astonishing dreams or the visions of the great Surrealist masters, there are images capable of unsettling our certainties and transforming the ordinary into something unexpected, suggesting that reality is not always quite what it seems. The dark waters of the ocean, like the fabrics by Tessilidea, appear to defy gravity in an upside-down dive suspended in mid-air, while the accessories by Lartigianabottoni take shape in a pair of flippers and legs emerging from a meadow, creating a scene poised between irony and wonder. In a rocky landscape that seems to reflect endlessly upon itself, two figures almost touch across a mirrored dimension, enveloped in the warmth of the fabrics by Lineaesse Group. Nearby, the accessories by Tarducci Massimo evoke a mirror that fragments the landscape and captures the blue of the sky, giving rise to a refined dialogue of contrasts, while a frame seemingly deprived of its picture recalls the clean, geometric lines of the buckles by Lampa. The viscose fabrics by Géneros de Punto Fabrés are dressed in green, absorbing the textures of a stretch of tarmac that appears to conceal an illusion: at the feet of a pair of shoes, the unexpected reflection of an entire figure appears, as though a hidden presence were emerging from a parallel dimension. Further on, a small mirror is raised towards the sky, its frame echoing the fabric of a dress, while the refraction of the clouds merges with the material, recalling the lustre of satin and the richness of jacquard by SFT – Sampietro Group. The warm wools by Joseph H Clissold & Son embrace the tones of a road that, through a playful shift in perception, transforms into a swimming lane, surrounding the athlete with deep shades of grey and violet. A little further on, another mirror captures a fragment of sky at the heart of a flowering meadow, reflecting its delicate palette in the cotton fabrics by Juan Boluda. Finally, the ribbons by Nastrificio De Bernardi unfold like a lush meadow, at the centre of which an apparently magical mirror once again alters our perception of space, reminding us that what we see often depends on the way we choose to look at it.
Concept & editing by Zoom on Fashion Trends magazine
