SANTI E MARTIRI
AW 14/15
press release
THE INSPIRATION BEHIND DOREAPALAN'S NEW COLLECTION "SANTI E MARTIRI" ("SAINTS AND MARTYRS") COLLECTS RELIGIOUS WORSHIPS OF CERTAIN SAINTS AND THEIR ICONOGRAPHIES IN HISTORY OF ART AND FOCUSSES ON PERSONAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE MOST INTERESTING HOLY LEGENDS. AS WITH THEIR PREVIOUS WORK THEIR COLLECTIONS STAND OUT FOR MIXED TECHNIQUE ILLUSTRATIONS, REALISED ON BOARD AND PRINTED DIGITALLY IN COMO (ITALY) ON TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF VISCOSE, WHICH BOTH EXALT THE DESIGN AND THE BRILLIANT COLOURS: A PUNTO ROMA INTERLOCK JERSEY AND A LIGHT-WEIGHT FLUCTUANT CREPE MAROCAIN.
EVERY ITEM IS FULLY PRINTED WITH CONTINUOUS GRAPHIC PLACEMENT ON BOTH FRONT AND BACK, AS IF IT WERE WEARABLE PAINTINGS, WHICH ARE TAILORED WITH ENORMOUS ATTENTION TO DETAIL.
SANTI E MARTIRI" IS A COLLECTION COMPOSED BY:
ELEGANT TROUSERS, WHERE SAINT VITUS ON A DEEP BLACK BACKGROUND ACCENTUATES THE TAPERED LEG. THE GRAPHIC REFERS TO THE SAINT'S ATTRIBUTES, TO THE DOG AND TO THE CONSTELLATION OF HIS NAME, TO THE PSYCHOSIS CALLED "SAINT VITUS DANCE" AND THEREFORE TO TARANTISM AND TO DANCE IN GENERAL, SYMBOLISED THROUGH DANCING LEGS SURROUNDING THE HALO IN THE ILLUSTRATION.
A NUDE COLOURED, BALLOON CUT DRESS DEFINED BY A PLACEMENT PRINT RECALLING A TATTOO INSPIRED BY SAINT JOHN, SHOWING SALOMÈ AND HERODIAS FLYING AROUND HIS FIGURE TRYING TO CATCH HIS HEAD, THE LAYOUTS OF TWO CHURCHES DEDICATED TO JOHN THE BAPTIST, DRAWN IN BETWEEN TWO WAVING FLAGS AND A LAMB, HIS ATTRIBUTE PAR ECCELLENCE.
AND OF THREE LOOSE FIT BLOUSES:
A WARM GREY ONE WITH TIGHT LONG SLEEVES SHOWING A SENSUAL YET MODEST SAINT TERESA OF ÀVILA, THE ARROWS RUNNING THROUGH HER HEART DURING HER TRANSCENDENT ECSTASY, AND A METICULOUS AND GEOMETRIC ROSE WINDOW FILLING UP THE BLOUSE'S BACK.
AN ULTRAMARINE ONE WITH WIDE SLEEVES, FULL OF ACCURATE DETAILS CHARACTERIZING THE GRAPHIC OF SAINT LUCY; MULTIPLE EYES, THE SYMBOL OF HER PRESUMED MARTYRDOM, ARE FILLING THE BLOUSE FROM THE TOP, SWORDS, THAT BEHEADED HER, LIGHT BULBS AND LAMPS FROM WHERE THE MEANING OF HER NAME COMES, ARE CROWNING HER HEAD HERE.
AND A SHORT SLEEVED ONE, THAT ENHANCES THE BODY WITH PLAYFUL GRAPHICS DEPICTING A SPECULAR SAINT SEBASTIAN OVER A FLOURISHING HEART ON MAGENTA COLOURED BACKGROUND. THE TWO SENSUALLY ILLUSTRATED FIGURES OF THE SAINT STICK OUT FROM A DECORATIVE TROMPE-L'OEUIL BONDAGE MOTIVE JOINING FROM THE FRONT UNTO THE CENTRE BACK OF THE BLOUSE CORRESPONDING TO A BOW AND ARROW, THE SYMBOL OF HIS VERY OWN MARTYRDOM.
