Antonio Marras. Fall 2020 Ready-to-Wear - Milan Fashion Week.

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Antonio Marras is a conscientious fashion designer, conscientious not as some collective idealism, but conscious of his own heart and emotions.   His unique template and desire to express a perspective of life.  Knowing that, despite achieving aspects of fame, that life is hard.  For the creative, in a saturated world of ambition, there is also suffering.  Yet, suffering can be abated, it passes through.  Once a work is completed, gently, memories and all, should be pushed to the side and the artist therefor begins again.  We practice to the end. 

Marras's designs, since leaving Kenzo, are distinct in recutting the vintage as a homage to his native Sardinia styles, which he has skillfully fused into recent collections.  However the traditionalism and its history is not marked by recounting a wish to drag a past resonance into the present, Marras works an originality into his contemporary pieces, styled by its own personal inspiration.  

We might count the Japanese fashion designers of 1980s for reshaping couture in Paris, but the influence of London fashion of the early 80s and the designers of the time can not be missed from its impact on fashion to this day.  Drawing from the past his fine, as long as it is not overly romanticized, to replay back in longing for its nostalgia.  You may only find ghosts.  However, Marras with his wife, used to frequent, in the early 80's, the many of London's punk, goth and new wave nightclubs, aware of the styles represented.  This can clearly be seen as an influence with Marras's Fall 2020 collection.  

For his Ready-to-Wear showing at Milan Fashion Week he has unveiled a massive collection of 85 pieces, covering an impressive ensemble of Marras's take on urban chic styles of punk and goth, with his choice of vintage inspired fabrics.  The collection reflects the innvovation of mixing and matching styles, that youth subcultures of the late 70's and 80's were famous for, more so hunting down a rare tuxedo blazer from a second hand store and mixing it with a homemade band t-shirt.  The early UK punk/goth scenes excelled in its individualizing of clothing, Marras has allowed his collection to reflect those styles without overly recopying them.  There is the layering of trench coats and recut suiting styles, all utilizing the finest of Italian wool yarns, the pattern work is in tune with Marras's Sardinia, Italian roots, adorned in its ornamental embroidery.  Feathered caps, gothic inclinations, punk fishnet stockings and tartan. Luxury styles that have been mixed into a rebellious Italian and British flavor.