PUNK THOUGHTS: VÌEN FALL-WINTER 2018

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“Punk rock is art. Punk rock for me means freedom.” Thus spoke Kurt Cobain, leader of the band Nirvana, who died in 1994, in the midst of the grunge era, subculture of the nineties, similar to the punk, born twenty years earlier in the Anglo-Saxon countries, for the use of some codes, as a musical expression of bands like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. But music is not the only political-aesthetic expression to which the movement refers. Fashion, art and literature are the other vehicles chosen to declare the anti-system of the underground current in question. And like all things, it too has been taken up and reinterpreted over the last few decades, until today. In the fashion system, for example, many brands have revised the language of that period: from Galliano to the first Marc Jacobs, through Margiela and, of course, Vivienne Westwood, to arrive at contemporary realities like Vìen with the Punk is dad collection, presented in Milan during the February Fashion Week.

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The made in Italy brand, based in Putignano, Puglia, where it produces the artisanal items of each collection, founded by designer Vincenzo Palazzo with Elena Nitti, has since its beginnings, with the presentation of the 2017 winter, re-proposed in a personal key, adapted to the current times, cultural worlds unknown to the masses, making them the basic element of their aesthetic, even in an ironic key, without compromising the analytical and practical seriousness of the creative profession. In the case in question, fashion and music are the founding pillars of each release proposed, in which masculine and feminine looks have parade exchanging details of one and the other, especially for what concerns the woman.

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The suit is revisited in pinstriped fabric, while the men’s shirts make the lines appear. They could not miss the kilts, unstructured with pulled up pleates and the outerwear, true protagonist of the wardrobe proposed by Palazzo. You have the jackets screwed with the marked shoulders, the trench coats and the over coats.

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Beyond the specifics of the garments, what matters, and which unites every garment, is experimentation, which is noticeable not only in the volumes, in the metissage of the colors, but also and above all in the concept of remix, invoked by the creator from Puglia, where the meaning of the word fashion goes beyond the habit, calling to itself multiple intellectual references. Thus it produces an exchange, a dialogue and a meaning.