SPRING –SUMMER COLLECTION 2001

“SEA LAND”

I have always believed that my creations could go beyond “clothing” in itself.
More than the body, I like to dress  the images crowding my mind when I give way to emotions that touch me.
I have explored my soul and Sicily my native land… land of lava, history and daring architecture.
Memories of Africa, deserts, primordial moods and light saturated colours run quickly through my mind; then … the sight of …The Sea.
The Sicilian sea, black, foamy, at the foot of the Volcano, crystal green at the Eolian islands and even aquamarine where the pomice-stone creates a waterfall.
In Vindicari, yellow sand waves abandon on the shores magic wind sculptured wood,pieces of  Roman amphoras that appear on the surface from submerged wrecks, shell fossils white as the baroque Cathedral stone and pieces of fishing nets intertwined with delicate vegetable embroidery.
Astonished witnesses before such beauty, we cannot but collect these memories and combine them… The stormy sea as a metaphor of life can associate past memory Homeric navigators and fishermen from Acitrezza: for the former Homer wrote verses of extraordinary beauty, for the latter Verga wrote phrases as hard as rock. Women tied to their land looking towards the sea, the dark women in Malavoglia described as fishers; women tied to the sea looking towards their land, as the enchanting sirens in Ulysses. Where the earth ends to meet the sea, this Collection is born. Cork, roots, rubber, loom made leather mesh, black coral, oxidine string knotted embroidery: matter blends with form. The thin cork skirts, sewn in large irregular pieces and then… the tar black skirts… put together as soft fishermen’s nets while others seem soft brown seaweed carpets all evoke the soft calcareous stone rocks. The  palette of colours presents tar black, foam white, yellow streaked cork and coral red. During this emotional journey I meet the magic atmosphere of the theatre, dance, the Ensemble by Maestro Micha Van Hoecke: a meeting of the soul. My clothes give a form to his thoughts, become costumes for suggestive theatre creations; his emotions and feeling give a soul to my clothes. In this way fashion meets the theatre…

Root and pomice- stone mesh bustier. String pareo skirt	Sculpture-bustier with wood elements . Skirts in “stringed” cork layers	Trousers in “stringed” cork. Root mesh bustier with marine  elements