INTERVIEW. GIUSEPPE BUCCINNÀ: FASHION BETWEEN CRAFTSMANSHIP AND ART

Art, nature and knowledge. Furthermore, a very important element: awareness. These four categories, separated but that touch to feed on each other, make up the philosophy of Rigpa (or “knowledge” in Sanskrit, en) by Giuseppe Buccinnà, designer degreed in civil engineering at the Politecnico University In Milan, and later specialized in modeling at the Istituto Secoli. Entirely made in Italy, the spring summer 2017 collection was presented in Milan during fashion week.

Giuseppe, what was the moment when you realized that to base your idea of fashion would be the beginning of your career as a creative?

When I discovered that I based my relationship with others on my attitudes and not on their expectations. The great thing for me is a moment. So I started to look inside myself and from there everything was born.

Rigpa, awareness. What aspects of your work which you have more clarity?

Follow all the stages of the realization process of a collection allows me to find continuous stimuli. The choice of fabrics, the realization of the first drafts but also the realization of the patterns become the crucial phases of the whole. Awareness is the search within me, in the most natural way possible, what then will be turned into a language of shapes and volumes. Find a way to interpret this is harmonization I pursue daily.

You produce with natural fabrics not treated. Why this choice?

I try to minimize any type of finishing to feel in line with what I think at this moment of my life. Since this is the early stage of my project I feel the need not go further without the exclusion, in the future, to explore new approaches.

Aesthetically speaking, what are the silhouette that you like?

I would try to untie me from the concept of the body, they are much more attracted by its constant changes. I think of those who do not accept clothing conformist canons often related to age and social stratification. I speak of mass individualism. In this sense we must be able to feel the head as an extension of your thoughts.

Until what point fashion and culture, and therefore also the art, can converge?

I strongly believe in the separation of these concepts; certainly fashion can draw from the art world but the range is in wanting to keep things on different levels. At a time marked by strong social and extinctions subcultures conflicts, I try to position myself in the middle of analyzing the blacks holes, and bringing them back in the form of heads, cracks and asymmetries.

You have just attended the fashion week in Milan. What do you think of the current fashion system and the extent to which you believe this is in line with your product?

I think that, as in every layer of our society, we need to revisit the rules in order to allow medium-small companies can have visibility helpful to emerge enhancing its creative technical aspects of those still not affected by profound influences and changes resulting from the market. As long as this does not happen, there will always be a dichotomy between the reality of large-scale and small utopias.

What are your future plans?

I would like to continue working closely with artisans able to transmit the human wealth of knowledge and method as well as to shape new forms capable of decoding a highly personal language.

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