Revealed
January 18, 2025
Milan menswear season opened Friday with Federico Cina and a bona fide vogue taking place contained in the Fondazione Sozzani within the northern rim of the Italian vogue capital.
Federico Cina fall/winter 2025 assortment – Courtesy
Staged on a cold but sunny winter afternoon, the presentation felt extra like an artwork set up by Marina Abramović than a show of garments. It appeared a perfect setting for the gathering, made in dense virtually industrial wools and lower with authority by Cina, a particular new Bologna-born designer.
Mannequin/characters enacting mini day by day rituals inside plywood containers, or small levels granting the garments a sure elegant gravitas. One rocker gent determine in completely lower midnight blue blazer/peacoat stood amid a circle of eight microphones, often gliding up yo a mike one to say only one solemn phrase. Whereas a hirsute youth in a white denim jumpsuit sat in a nook unpeeling 100 oranges painted white. Close by, a profession woman attired in a backless, plissé handkerchief gown marched endlessly round an workplace chair inside a white skim. In a single sense, trapped like an additional in Orson Welles’ “The Trial”; in one other, a proud lady going about her enterprise with precision and pleasure. Federico named the gathering “Assunta and Giacomo,” after his two grandparents who handed away final 12 months.
Federico Cina fall/winter 2025 assortment – Courtesy
“It’s a fashion remembrance, recalling how they dressed for work, special occasion or family events,” defined Cina. A set of nice poise, and a intelligent introduction to the ever-growing Fondazione Sozzani, the place the founder Carla, and her daughter Sara Maino, Europe’s greatest younger vogue expertise diviner, are turning a former ceramics manufacturing unit right into a cool cultural magnet. Scores of younger hipsters thronged across the occasion. As soon as the financial and industrial heartland of the post-war Italian renaissance, Milan at this time is the brand new Eldorado of design innovation. The place Europe’s youth arrive en masse to find themselves and recommend a brand new imaginative and prescient of their roots. Identical to Federico Cina.
