After years and seasons of discussing body, perfection and imperfection, different physicalities and their perception, this theme is returning powerfully at a time when many categories have been questioned, erased, and cleared.
New fits, inclusive design, a-gender, and size-free fashion are new topics of discussion that the market and fashion are increasingly and thoroughly questioning. Sleep Mattress Pad
Malo discovers the new architecture of the body For f/w 2023/2024, Malo, a historic Florentine fashion house specializing in cashmere knitwear, presented its new collection "Inhabiting the Body," addressing a topic that is being discussed again with renewed attention.
Its new collection is inspired by functional architecture to best inhabit the body in space and time, choosing garments that allow each person to express his or her personality to the fullest. Photo: Malo Malo
Each look encapsulates a concept of comfort for contemporary day-to-night living. Everything is soft; the hands are light and impalpable; the treatments are always new; and the colors speak of the brand, with a range of neutrals, from ice to warm whites to iron gray and more compact reds.
Malo chooses a style code based on quiet luxury—a luxury that is suffused and not ostentatious, but also in harmony with the environment and offers timeless yet ethical and sustainable fashion.
In keeping with this approach, it offers regenerated cashmere garments made with a GRS-certified yarn composed of 50% post-consumer cashmere destined for disposal, recovered and carefully sorted by color, re-milled and trimmed together with 50% new cashmere staple, which is necessary to ensure color stability and garment hold.
This renewed cashmere is a GRS (Global Recycle Standard) certified yarn, promoted by Textile Exchange, a leading international nonprofit organization for responsible and sustainable development in textiles. To produce it, 90% less water was saved, 80% less electricity was used, and 95% less CO2 was emitted.
Malo also offers 100% traceable wool, merino garments, and alpaca obtained with full respect for animals by working with suppliers that respect the environment and the welfare of animals.
"Eco down" wadding, in polyester wadding or recycled down filling, recovered from post-consumer garments, completes this harmonic vision. Photo: Malo Malo The body as seen by designers Soon, during the Milano Moda Donna shows in September 2023, Maria Luisa Frisa, fashion theorist, author, and curator, and Chiara Tagliaferri, writer, will present "Sailor. Anatomy of the Body through Fashion," the first in a series of podcasts intended to trace the new geographies of bodies and clothes through the words of the great protagonists of Italian fashion, in dialogue with the two intellectuals.
Each episode will deal with a part of the body closely intertwined with the testimonies of creative directors met by Frisa and Tagliaferri, who will talk about their work and their lives, accompanying the listener into a private and professional universe.
Among the first protagonists of the initiative will be Maria Grazia Chiuri, creative director of Dior; Alessandro Michele, former creative director of Gucci; Pierpaolo Piccioli creative mind behind Valentino; Francesco Risso of Marni; as well as other designers. Photo: Manteco From left: Maria Grazia Chiuri, Maria Luisa Frisa Sailor is the first podcast of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana written in voice by “Storielibere” and will be available on all platforms starting Wednesday, September 20, 2023.
The first presentation will be held on Thursday, September 21 at 6PM at the Fashion Hub of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (Palazzo Giureconsulti, Piazza dei Mercanti 2, Milan) during Milan Fashion Week.
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