It was a symbolic journey Paolo Carzana was talking about, a difficult symbolic climb.
Ive called the collection Melanchronic Mountain, he said.
Everyone around is feeling a lot in this moment, the way the world is.
Its this feeling I have that its so hard to try and be positive, but we can.
Its within the bones that we carry, how we can transform that pain into hope.
Theres something almost primeval and mythic about the emotion this designer stirs up with his clothes.
Fashion that defies fashion?
Or fashion thats gone into a realm beyond fashion?
Carzanas first character looked as if hed crawled out of the mud; barefoot and barely surviving.
What you couldnt tell was how Carzana had made these pieces.
Its an unconventionality of his own that exists in a weird realm between conscious amateurism and extreme skill.
Like John Galliano and Alexander McQueen in their earliest days, hes inventing techniques as he goes.
Now, Carzana has BFC NewGen funding to put on shows.
As of next month, hell also be contending in the semi-final of the2024 LVMH Prize.
Many important eyes are already on him.
