POLIMODA SHOW 2015: The twenty best collections of Young Fashion Talents

On Tuesday 16 June, during Pitti Uomo #88, the Polimoda Show, key appointment of the best emerging Fashion Design talents graduating from Polimoda in 2105, returns to Villa Favard. At 18:00, and again at 20:00,  on show are the twenty best collections designed, created and made by the final year pupils of the noted fashion design course, led by Belgian, Patrick De Muynck, and attended by over eighty youngsters from all over the world in the Florentine institute.

Twenty collections and just as much individuality: eight outfits each, the final results of a three-year process searching for their creative identities and expression and, finally, visiting card to introduce themselves, show people who they are and become part of the fashion world. A unique opportunity for the young designers to show their work and for top fashion players to find new emerging talents. This event is dedicated to company operators, buyers, designers, head-hunters, journalists and fashion bloggers  – and is an important launching pad for the working world and the Fashion Olympus.

“We are the first to believe in our designers' talent - explains Patrick De Muynck, Head of the Design Department of Polimoda since 2008 - We have seen them grow professionally and, over the years, have shared their conquests and defeats, frustrations and goals. We have tried to transmit sector background and competences, and have accompanied them in their personal and professional maturity. Now that they're ready, it is our job to help them emerge and give the most deserving a chance to present their work“.

On the catwalk in the impressive Villa Favard setting, headquarters of the institute, eleven womenswear collections, nine menswear, from eight different nationalities: the main 2015 designers come from Italy, Russia, Korea, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey.

Marina Galiatsatou opens the show with Alone, Together: a collection inspired by  co-existence and contrast, including classic items revisited and destructured so as to almost conceive real, true architectures highlighted by the presence of two pieces of the same garment going in different directions.

The Austrian, Hannes Wandaller presents Du Bist, Ich Bin, inspired by bullying, in a collection of destructured jackets and draped T-shirts recalling colours typical of bruising and silhouettes reminding us of shreding and deformation caused by a fight.

Totem by Armando Punzetto wants to be pure experimentation, with minimalist cuts and pure shape silhouettes, emphasised by the use of hi-tech materials and the stencil technique, to enhance the female body.

Samira Yusifova in Tension Adorned develops an experimental textile treatment, laminating lettuce leaves onto jean fabric as a metaphor of freshness, matched with bright mosaics made of ruffled velvet revisiting Pourpoint and Paisley.

The plasticised nylon and white used in Puritatem, by Daria D’Ambrosio from Campania, evoke the concepts of sacrifice and purification inspired by the story of the American cloistered nun, Charlotte Wells.

The Neapolitan, Alessandro Trincone, in Kings and Queers identifies himself in Pulcinella, misunderstood and ridiculed for the way he dressed, in a harmonic men’s collection rich in floral decorations; maintaining that masculine touch thanks to tailored fabrics.

Ís by Alice Saltarelli displays clothes in delicate yet brilliant colours, with prints and technical materials referring to travel and exploration, inspired by Journey to the centre of the Earth by Verne.

The  Self Preservation collection by  Elisa Di Leo is centred on the antagonism between slayer  and saviour, revisiting a butcher’s apron reworked in the cut and materials, contrasted with the idea of life jacket evoked by sails.

Cecilia Sertori with Dethroned God narrates the perception of reality lived through a screen: branches of veins and cables, battered skins and strong red and black contrasts tell of a unique reality that does not exist.

Mr. Sandman by Sofia Roccuzzo is like a psychedelic dream, in a vortex starting from pastel and pop colours, floral and geometrical patterns, consistent and semi-transparent materials, in an innovative mix of male and female silhouettes for a super-hero gentleman.

Vanity of Vanities: All is vanity: this quote from Ecclesiastes is the starting point of the collection by Ksenia Novakovskaia in a tribute to her Jewish origins; amongst elementary shapes reflecting the concept of the world’s cyclic nature, large front volumes and pleats recalling the ceremonial white Bat-Mitzvah dress.

The garments of the collection by Utku Serkan Zengin, I Wonder as I Wander, present the cultural heritage of his native Turkey revisited for the creative, modern man, with colours of nature and urban landscape, organic and structured shapes.

Fade Memoria by Min Yu Park is inspired by the garments used in Buddhist dances, with neutral colours and “ghost” items evoking fading memory.

For Women I Wanna be, Violante Toscani is inspired by the young high society 70s woman, in a world of journeys and long fur coats, fitted carpets and champagne, integrated with reworks of parts of her own face in an introspective search for the identity of a twenty-one year old.

Jònsi & Alex by Ambra Inghilleri is a tale of crinolines, changes, volumes and stereotypes, inspired by the gay couple the collection is named after and by the deformation and signs that their movements would have impressed on garments, hand-coloured by the designer.

The clothes by Benedetta Bianchini in Via dell’Apparita draw inspiration from the structured silhouettes from the start of the 20th century and her home town of Pienza, seen as the ideal city: a collection centred on the balance between man and nature for a woman looking for perfect harmony.

The collection by  Pio Boserman from Madrid, Son Tus Ojos Estrellas, evokes Morocco by deconstructing and reinterpreting Moroccan male dress, from which he takes colours hand-painted on garments.

Leonor De Assis Ferreira, Portuguese, for Of  Flappers and Philosophers starts from the world of etiquette of Scott Fitzgerald and Evelyn Waughn, contrasted with that of a modern girl ignoring the rules; for a surreal and chaotic mix between traditional shirts, classical open trousers painted by hand, fringed skirts and antique waistcoats.

Ode to a Nightingale by Matilde Gennari is inspired by the film on the life of John Keats, Bright Stars: through the figure of a poet hunter, the collection combines technical hunting clothes with the elegance of gold, black and green embroidery.

The young designers show concludes with the collection Of Zero Gravity by Anzhelika Balaeva: a fresh retro-futuristic look inspired by the film Solaris, combining metallic textures, transparent plastics and paroxysm of family and domestic my review herelook at thismorereplica watch report reviewsbest replica watches websitesphone waterproof case11 7 bar hatyai de perfecte plek voor een gezellige avond uit detail design, and from  Russian crafts traditions.