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Photo credit : Ricardo Tisci backstage at
the Givenchy show in Paris
Photo: JASON LLOYD EVANS
Vogue
Italia:
The New Beginning
by Riccardo Tisci
Calvin French along with the team at YOU,
celebrates with our fellow associates at Vogue Italia,
as Rccardo Tisci has been appointed Creative Director of the major event
celebrating the New course of Vogue Italia.
By Luisa Zargani – WWD.com
MILAN — Riccardo Tisci has a new gig — and he’s
looking back some 700 years for inspiration.
Celebrating its new course, Vogue Italia has tapped
the designer as creative director of an event that
will celebrate the magazine during Milan Fashion
Week on Sept. 22.
Located at Milan’s former railway station Scalo
Farini, the event, dubbed “The New Beginning,”
will focus on Italy, the theme of the magazine’s
September issue, which is now helmed by
Emanuele Farneti.
“I turned to one of the masters in Italy, Dante
[Alighieri], and was inspired by his ‘Divine Comedy’,”
Tisci told WWD. Not one to shy away from theatrics,
the event is bound to leave a mark, as guests will
see that Tisci has re-created Inferno, Purgatory and
Paradise at the venue.
“The Inferno is dark and Gothic, a bit like me,” joked
Tisci. The poem, he said, continues to represent
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society today “with the good, the bad and the
uncertains. There is a cultural approach, but
modern and contemporary.”
The designer believes Italy is in the midst of another
renaissance, and he expressed pride in his country
and its culture, remarking on a new wave of artists,
musicians, models, directors, actors and singers. “I
really believe in Italy, I have been living outside the
country for 25 years and when you see it from the
outside, you appreciate its culture even more.”
Tisci has been working on the event since May.
He has called four DJs and there will be singing
performances, but he declined to provide too
much information to protect the surprise effect.
“It’s an art performance, a mixture between a rock,
Gothic concert and the more ironic and romantic
Disneyland. It’s a celebration of Vogue Italia and
of Italy. There is also a fun dress code, between
elegant and streetwear.”