Nowadays fashion is more and more an expression of an hypertrophic and accelerated world, stubbornly pursuing the promise of novelty: new forms, new traces, new stories. In such a whirlwind, I chose to dwell in a different gesture: not running, but lingering. Not opening a new chapter, rather delving into a theme already unfolding. I chose not to consume the latest thing. Rather, I decided to let the images and the interrogations sediment and grow within a vertical excavation.
Hence the need to summon the topics of the Fall Winter 2025-2026 show, Le Méta Théâtre Des Intimités, to continue questioning the close relationship between identity and robing practices. Here comes the public bathroom again: a counter-place where private and relational dimension mingle, where the visible challenges the invisible, where decency collides with guilty pleasure and exposure flirts with occultation. It’s a liminal space that, in this campaign, becomes enriched with new bodies, gazes and encounters, becoming an unfailing scene of possibilities.
It was like imagining a life after the show: how many other existences could that uncanny and choral space host? How many other unspoken desires could take shape there? And which different intimacies would be reflected in its corridors?
We know, fashion has always been a language of appearance, a device that stages bodies and exposes them to the gaze. Even in our most intimate dimension we can’t escape such exhibiting nature. Hannah Arendt had it perfectly clear: being and appearing coincide, it’s what frames our very existence in the world. Accordingly, clothes certify their status of second skin, the means through which we decide to show ourselves on the stage of life.
It may be just this, fashion’s most valuable legacy: depth showing itself as an interweaving of surfaces and intimacy revealing its political and poetic strength.
Not at all motionless essence, but endless motion. Not a private shelter, but a shared scene.
Alessandro
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Le Méta Théâtre Des Intimités Valentino Valentino Garavani
