Alessandro Michele, fashion as an instrument of freedom
In the latest book written with Emanuele Coccia, fashion becomes an instrument and object of philosophical dialogue, storytelling and reflection on mankind
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In the days in which the first Valentino collection designed by Alessandro Michele is unveiled, the thought that Alessandro Michele proposes in his latest book, written in four hands with the philosopher Emanuele Coccia, is even more ambitious and significant.
Michele seems to feel, and not just now, the urge to build a philosophical home for fashion, the philosophical meaning that he has perceived, studied and given to his collections and his ongoing research.
Fashion as metamorphosis of time
It cannot be denied that never before has there been such a need to rediscover a sense or at least a release for creativity in fashion, which if on the one hand seems to be languishing on the other is an expression of the metamorphosis of time, not just its mere passing.
The need to encounter philosophy, for the fashion designer and writer, comes from a choice of freedom and not from a scholarly urge. Fashion is defined as the discipline that allows life to liberate itself through its very forms, and here Alessandro Michele urges us to believe that philosophy itself loves fashion, that thought can, through fashion, become the form of a body and the form of the world at the same time.
The complexity and richness of life are a place of discovery and inspiration for the creation of something else, they are the pathway for experimentation with oneself and with things, an endless process that is defined from time to time in the imprint of each of us. And then transforming again.
