UN ANIMAL DEVRA MOURIR - GIUSEPPE VIRGONE

saturday november 14th at 7pm
giuseppe virgone's bespoke menswear collection
in conjunction with the musical performance of nemoi and the scenography of guillaume airiaud. 

the body is a tragedy, a confrontation between life and death.
the body is a weakness, unformed, and full of promises.
my collection evokes the mortal fate of the man,
an unconditional love for a beast and the misunderstanding of certain inequitable acts.
i do not look for absolute. Just a happy medium between life and death,
as if the body became the heart of the tragedy.
the tragedy is not only a suffering, it is just here, imposing a new glance on the world.
she created herself a personnal mental space.
she frightens because her acts are unjustified.
the tragedy as the man begins to elaborate movements in a nothingness, searching for an identity.
from there, begins a conflict between cultures and man.
the animal is in us, or around us, it is present in our movements and our thoughts.

my work consists in betraying the essential, to remove any sensations of the matter , any feelings of touch. It doesn’t destroy her but makes her stronger, the substance becomes jewel.
the concept is to immobilize a body in a mass, at once soft and hard, the jewel has the same sensation than plaster, making the body choke in a rigid shell.
the silhouette is opposed to the forms, letting the matter fall.
the collection is formal, luxurious, animal, heavy, precious.
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