Secoli Fashion Show 2023
Where Here
Spotlight on 40th edition of event
The 40th edition of the Secoli Fashion Show was held on 8 June at Talent Garden in Via Calabiana, Milan. Students coming to the end of their three-year course at the noted Milanese fashion school showcased their designs in front of a large audience excited to celebrate this major milestone. Alongside the Institute and the students, the event was attended by the Lombardy regional authority, who backed the initiative, the Municipality of Milan and the most important fashion industry associations: Antia, Camera Nazionale della Moda, IACDE, Piattaforma Sistema Formativo Moda, Sistema Moda Italia.
On arrival, before the actual show, the guests were surprised to be catapulted into the world of new technologies: a virtual show entitled ‘4 decades of Secoli Fashion Show’ with 5 outfits selected by models who appeared in the 1985, 1996, 2010, 2016 and 2022 editions, summarising how fashion has changed since the ‘80s. “The entire school was looking forward to this year’s Secoli Fashion Show,” says Matteo Secoli, Chair of Istituto Secoli. “Our students demonstrated their passion, knowledge and skills in their wonderful collections and really honoured this year’s anniversary.”
The show opened with collections from the ‘Designer To Watch’ project, featuring upcoming talents Margherita Aureli, sisters Anna and Silvia Cristofolini, Gabriele Fabris and Giovanni Fotia. This was followed by the Secoli Fashion Show 2023, inspired by the concept WHERE HERE – ‘What you create depends on what you see’. Observing, reflecting, creating as a process that leads thought into an open, deep and shared interpretative dimension that helps us to stop ‘looking’ and start ‘seeing’. Through our gaze, we can reach a personal, subjective condition.
Observing is like seeing, “observing slowly” helps us notice initially ignored details that change our conception and perception of what we are observing; what we notice takes us “out of ourselves”, pushes us beyond, helps us to process projected thought; what we internalise by looking beyond is pure creation.
