Vìen spring-summer 2019 man and woman: fashion, between contemporary beat and Africa

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Only true lovers and experts of Malcolm McLaren know that the leader of the Sex Pistols composed an album in 1983 entitled Duck Rock. Vincenzo Palazzo shows he knows the subject, since he conceived the entire Vìen man and woman collection for next summer on it. In particular, the inspirational song of the designer and founder of the brand is Buffalo Gals, the phrase “Two buffaloes go around outside”, around the outside, “around the outside”. The recurring image is grafted into a record in which in addition to the punk base, always present in the work of the former husband of Vivienne Westood, other influences emerge, as the beat of the hip hop culture, originated in the African continent and in the United States of America through the block parties. These are, for example, a couple of neighborhood or block, in fact, parties, in which guys rap and dance, between dissing and deep rhythms.

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Next to the music, the clothes of the Apulian brand life and shape thanks to the typical aesthetics of the Masai tribe’s garments, in particular that of the warriors. Therefore, soft and feminine dress lines are born, embellished with sinuous drapery, an open shoulder and bright colors. Alongside the mystical and wild charm of this population lies the urban, for man, recalled by the style of the African working class, that Palazzo decided to interpret it through a métissage to unite the opulent style of the eighties to the current road.

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The blend also resounds in the production made in Italy and fabrics, which the designer, during the presentation that took place this month at the Milan fashion week, says is “refined mixtures of silk and cotton for the multicolored Japanese madras, rough striped canvas with a mattress effect, micro squares and pinstripes blue, black leather delavè and faded denim. It is all mixed.”

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But what remains in the end? A collection, not far from the latest, for irreverence and concept, however inaugurating a season with a red thread of coherence for history and content. Without contradicting Vìen and its author are on the path of experimentation, inducing fashion to be contemporary because it is emphasized by the past and by the present technical avant-garde. A futuristic look in an unprecedented way of culture – hip hop and African – often stereotyped, which, in this case, are instead adapted to our days. From Putignano, Bari, to the world.

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