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“5 Things To Know About Schiaparelli’s Dante-Inspired SS23 Couture Show,” Vogue Article

February 1, 2023 By Sebastian Spadavecchio

“From divisive foam animal heads to Daniel Roseberry’s meditation on Dante’s Inferno, British Vogue’s fashion critic Anders Christian Madsen shares five things to know about Schiaparelli’s spring/summer 2023 couture show, which opened Couture Fashion Week this season.

[. . .]

“In his self-penned show notes, Roseberry cited Dante’s Inferno as the inspiration behind the collection, likening its protagonist’s uncertain journey into hell to the doubt that falls upon a designer like himself when he sits down to design. ‘This collection is my homage to doubt,’ he wrote. ‘I wanted to step away from techniques I was comfortable with and understood, to choose instead that dark wood where everything is scary but new.’ The feeling of the inferno appeared more as a spiritual reference than a direct one, unless your idea of hell is being trapped inside a massive faux taxidermy wolf, Midsommar style. (Naomi Campbell, who was given the honour, seemed typically unfazed.) Along with the lion and the snow leopard, it represented the animals Dante equates to lust, pride and avarice. A reference to the friendly giants he encounters in hell, a hammered brass and patina handmade giant’s head hit the runway with equal theatrical effect.

[. . .]
“Roseberry’s show notes finished on a sentimental key: ‘Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso,’ he wrote, referring to the three books that make up The Divine Comedy. ‘One cannot exist without the others. It is a reminder that there is no such thing as heaven without hell; there is no joy without sorrow; there is no ecstasy of creation without the torture of doubt. My prayer for myself is that I remember that always – that, on my most difficult days, when inspiration just won’t come, I remember that no ascension to heaven is possible without first a trip to the fires, and the fear that comes with it. Let me embrace it always.’ As a wise lion once said: Hakuna matata.”    –Anders Christian Madsen, “5 Things to Know About Schiaparelli’s Dante-Inspired SS23 Couture Show”, Vogue, January 23, 2023
For more on the show (and the controversies it stirred), see the New York Times‘ coverage here and here.
Contributed by Caleb Taylor (Florida State University ’26) and others. Thanks to all who sent links!

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2023, Couture, Dark Wood, Doubt, Fashion, Hell, Inferno, Lion, Magazines, Selva oscura, United Kingdom

Customizable Dante Apparel

November 16, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

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Customizable apparel companies like Redbubble, Zazzle, and teepublic feature countless Dante-related t-shirts and other items, like this “Dante’s Inferno Classic T-shirt“—featuring Botticelli’s portrait of the poet, along with the verse “Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch’intrate”—designed by user momulo-macheras on Redbubble.

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: Apparel, Clothing, Dante Portraits, Face of Dante, Fashion, Inferno, Lasciate ogne speranza

“Abito in poliestere dipinto a mano per i 700 anni dalla morte di Dante”

November 14, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“Vercelli, Istituto professionale Lombardi: un abito realizzato in occasione dei 700 anni dalla morte di Dante Alighieri un abito. Il modello è stato esposto in occasione della conferenza promossa dagli Amici dei Musei di Vercelli, nella cornice del Piccolo Studio,  nel Chiostro di Sant’Andrea, in cui dottor Claudio Martignon ha trattato il Canto X dell’Inferno, quello in cui il sommo poeta incontra il suo concittadino Farinata degli Uberti. L’abito è stato realizzato per omaggiare il padre della lingua italiana: è statoconfezionato nell’anno scolastico 2020/21, mentre le scuole affrontavano la sfida della didattica a distanza. I laboratori, tuttavia, sono rimasti aperti il più possibile e così la classe 5a Progettazioni tessili sartoriali, guidata dalla professoressa Bestetti con il sempre prezioso aiuto di Angela Dragna, ha lavorato al vestito in poliestere bianco dalla linea leggermente svasata. La gonna presenta delle profonde pieghe baciate sia davanti che dietro. La sua caratteristica principale sta nell’essere interamente dipinto a mano con immagini ispirate alle illustrazioni della Divina Commedia fatte dall’artista inglese John Flaxman che ritraggono Dante e Beatrice. Le maniche dell’abito sono a campana rettangolare, con strisce in tessuto dipinte recanti scritte tratte da alcuni versi della Commedia. Il collo è ispirato alle gorgere ma realizzato in tulle pieghettato. Il bellissimo lavoro ad opera delle studentesse del Lombardi ha potuto essere ammirato anche dai vercellesi.”    —La Sesia, November 8, 2021

Contributed by Lorenzo Coveri 

Categories: Consumer Goods, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Clothing, Fashion, Italy, John Flaxman, Student Projects, Vercelli

Calzedonia stockings (2021)

October 19, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber


The opening lines of the Commedia on a special line of Calzedonia stockings, Books Flock.

Contributed by Emanuela Cotroneo

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2021, Fashion, Hell, Inferno, Italy, Nel Mezzo del Cammin

Valentino Love Lab, 2019 Holiday Collection

October 16, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

For the holiday season in 2019, Valentino Garavani introduced a capsule collection featuring the final verse of Paradiso 33: “L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.” The verse appeared on shoes, hats, wallets, and purses.

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2019, Amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle, Fashion, Holidays, Love, Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars, Paradiso, Shoes, Stars, Valentino

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