Start-up. Self-confident: being aware of who we are and how we look like. Unconventional: unusual, different. Memorizing, putting together and mixing garments from our closet that instinctively seem compatible to us but not necessarily complementary. In other words, apply on yourself a style procedure that is often the start-up for fashion designers. They, travelling, go in search of new ideas, original inspirations, that they usually find – strangely enough – on the stalls of vintage markets. Look at your wardrobe like it’s the first time, eliminating the habits, trying not to wear the same things: mix up the cards, improvise, invent. Start the season with the will of being “new”. A look of Comme des Garcons in a picture of Peter Lindbergh (1994)

That issue’s subject: “Stand out from the crowd”. And it sounds so appropriate today: then it was a “dedication” to fashionable transgressors. Today this happens with a different feeling: standing out from the crowd, today, means breaking the conformism with the need to express one’s own personality. Ph. Maria Vittoria Backhaus. Jacket Comme des Garçons.

Work Uniform Glam by Comme des Garçons in the nineties. Photo and hand made decorations on print by Francesca Galliani.

Freak Show e’ una collettiva di 10 artisti talentuosi che presenteranno la loro personale visione del consumismo, in mostra al Christmas Park, evento principale dell’associazione culturale milanese Elita. Le porte del Teatro Franco Parenti si apriranno al pubblico di Freak Show i giorni Lunedì 19 e Martedì 20 Dicembre 2011 a partire dalle 18:00 sino alle 24:00. I lavori prenderanno vita attraverso la creazione e la vendita di merchandising creato ad hoc per l’occasione dal concept store Nove a Vercelli.

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