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05-07-2024
Lineapelle Young Designer Edition 2024
Thursday, 4 July 2024, during the first edition of Lineapelle Young Designer Edition at the Spazio Lineapelle and the opposite Piazza Tomasi di Lampedusa in Milan, Michele Jesus Incasa and Vincenzo Pellegrini, students of the Degree Course in Fashion Design presented a selection of outfits from the collection drop developed in the Fashion Design Final Studio class, coordinated by Prof. Chiara Colombi. The event, promoted by Lineapelle, with the patronage of the Lombardy Region and the Municipality of Milan, celebrated the creativity of young designers who interpret leather at its best.
Michele Jesus Incasa explains that his project “Archetipo” is an exploration of the concept of form that takes inspiration on an evocative level from various references: the conceptual photography of Ghirri, the work of Munari, the abstract art of Paul Klee and the modern and contemporary sculpture like that of Picasso and Max Hearst. Hence, the definition of silhouette is one with non-anatomical and geometric volumes. The result is a yellow mini dress in goat suede, a shirtdress made with lambskins, a wrap skirt, and a top with kimono sleeves made with lambskins. The limit imposed by the small size of the pieces led to the garment being constructed as a collage of multiple parts. To enhance the materials, all garments are free of finishing, thanks to the use of raw cuts and the use of facings.
Vincenzo Pellegrini describes his “Hell of Praying” project as follows: "Contemporary man no longer believes in blood. In the divine. In the transcendental. Everything is reduced to the material body of things, which has an intense visual and emotional impact because this body is tremendously real and tangible. This brutal bath of reality is revealed to the eye in my collection through the color red, which is more opaque and material than the preponderance of black, which presents itself with smooth surfaces. The skin comes back to life, acquiring new shapes that constrain the body, obscuring it entirely with a simple but malleable, transitory shape, devoted to transience, as in the crewneck sweatshirt in shape memory synthetic leather entirely lined with adhesive peccaries. Or again, forcing nudity with shapes that emulate the body, but they summarize it, as in the long dress in bi-elastic mesh with a halter neck and applications in doubled red nappa lambskin, constructed with moulage, and cups molded with wet skin.

