PRESS RELEASE
SPRING -
SUMMER COLLECTION
2009
When I was five I sewed dresses for my dolls, that cost twenty-five lire.
Everything came to life in a few centimetres of cloth, but in wonderful dreams.
Dreams of a young girl.
Cans full of buttons.
Glove and hat cardboard boxes.
Handbags, pearls and glitter.
Pieces of plastic for embroideries, colour tubes for paintings, nylon stockings:
in that "second" half of the nineteenth century that would revolution the world.
Women-girls wrappeed up in a timeless atmosphere.
Dresses as games, entrapped in the canvas of memories.
Woven tulle fabrics overlap as a past caress over the present.
Paper dolls and paper dresses.
Stripes, flowers, macramè, embroidery, stars and stripes...
The American dream continues,
in a cloud of hope.
Marella Ferrera