Creation and Objectives
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Description of the Collection

1980s-1990s

The pieces in the 1980s-1990s collection reveal a post-modernist environment, a great number of underlying styles and trends, and the way in which design became a status symbol in yuppie society on par with a work of art. The Memphis with the leading figure in Ettore Sostass was the most influential movement. The ‘female power’ and the experimentation based on traditional Japanese cut dominates the period and is well reflected in the fashion collection.

The collection shows the contrast between different emerging fashion styles, from French exuberance and luxury to Oriental asceticism and purity, from romantic Baroque style to the expression of apparel as art. The 1990s prepare the world for the brand culture as content in itself. The name is more important than the content.

Present Day

The collection ends with a set of new works combining styles and materials formerly considered incompatible – handicrafts, luxury and minimalism; high-tech and recycling – in articles which are increasingly modular, nomadic, multifunctional and organic. At the same time, traditional barriers between ready-to-wear clothes, street clothes and haute couture break down as new stylists and design studios use elements from all these categories. A back-to-basics approach returns, with a prevailing minimalist trend and androgynous approach.

The leading names in American, European and Asian design and fashion make up the collection.