Milan, 20th September, 2024.
The sense of belonging to a perfect biological system in an eternal and vital connection, for a constant and cyclical return to the essence of the elements.
A visual image, in which the drawing runs slow throughout the natural course of time, inexorable, scanning every season and life itself. These are the elements that inspired CALCATERRA spring/summer collection.
The 4 elements – Fire, Earth, Water and Air – define the shapes, volume and colour palette, from an intense red to the most ethereal white.
The natural element crosses the whole collection, in a transversal reading of textile and colour: organza silk, cold dyed cottons and fil coupé mimic the vital movements of leaves in a breeze or the intense colours of a sunset, just like the blood red dress, made light by a cascade of hand-woven silk chiffon fringes which becomes one of the recurring motifs of the season.
The theme of lightness, a breeze that carresses the cheek, runs across the whole collection, through volumes that become more enveloping and protective, designing a new ecosystem that seeks, as always in the aesthetics of CALCATERRA, to be reborn by moving away from the everyday life of our time. This is how trousers also lose their tailoring, abandoning pockets and seams to transform into a natural drape – reminiscent of the first Josephine Baker – through fabrics that seem to arise on the body, like a wave.
Reconnecting to our natural essence is not an invitation, but an expressive urgency that can be perceived in the whole collection, from the fabric choice, organic and exclusive, to the biological dyes and manufacturing itself.
A collection where, above, work, effort, ideas and creativity are perceived as necessary and interconnected elements to generate beauty.
