September, 19th, 2014

MILANO | SPRING SUMMER 2015 | DANIELA GREGIS
HUMANITÉ APPLIQUÉE

“A volte cerca un posto dove possa volgere il naso all’insù e vedere solo il colore blu; pensa che in quel momento vede lo stesso blu che vedono gli uccelli, lo stesso azzurro che avevano visto i trisavoli e che ancora si vedrà dopo di lei; in questo istante, Celeste dimentica tutto e…”

Daniela Gregis’s work cannot be reduced to a nostalgic recollection of blue that is forever lost. The “Celeste” Spring Summer 2015 is revealed by the skilled mixture of simple and complex shapes with a clear Japanese influence and many different cultural suggestions, taken from planet Earth that is made smaller by technology and by the speed of information. Daniela Gregis fashion ables to touch inner chords that are stifled by today’s frantic rhythms, outlining a sustainable future that might finally have a human dimension.

Top model and journalist, Benedetta Barzini, muse to Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, even though she came from a sophisticated background, being the daughter of heiress Giannalisa Feltrinelli and Italian journalist and author Luigi Barzini, Jr., still fight eloquently the idea that women represented “pleasure” and men represented “reason”. Being invited to model the meaning of clothes for Daniela Gregis, she remains loyal season after season, to a mutual way for both women of giving significance and making sense and being able to help others on their own paths. Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither ..

ALESSANDRO BERGA | L’ÉDITOR