GRUNGE POETRY: DAVIDE GRILLO S/S 2018 COLLECTION

There is Kate Moss, the film’s aesthetic of the movies directed by Sofia Coppola, the skilfully weared street style that brings Converse to the feet. But there are also flowers, pastel shades, contemporary figures. These elements contribute to shape the 2018 spring-summer collection that Davide Grillo presented at Palazzo Morando during the Milan’s Fashion Week, selected among the talents of Vogue Italia.

Born in La Spezia, class 1993 – in full grunge decade – the designer takes the first steps in the fashion world by studying this subject in Parma and then in London, attending courses at the prestigious Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. This path has led him to present his collections for a year to this part and found his eponymous brand in 2016. The stylistic concept carried by Grillo is based on a research that intersects two aspects: what today can be termed a contemporary style and the nostalgia for the past. As the last collection shows.

– These are romantic clothes, but designed for women who live in our age, who travel even in the streets of a metropolis – explains the fashion designer when he presents to me the various garments in the historic palace of via Sant’Andrea. And in fact, if you had to make a confrontation with those who have proposed wondering collections of past worlds, the young man from Liguria distinguished his by a sense of freshness, visible on both silk dresses and coats. Among these are the cotton denim model and the long one, with a very interesting shoulder work. Not to mention the color palette, which makes it très été.

While remaining faithful to made in Italy and to his woman-style idea, though he is just at his third collection, Davide Grillo is beginning to build a precise aesthetic with determination, hoping that he will grow stronger year after year and succeed in maintaining his creative identity. Promising.

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