sentimental

Romantic. It comes naturally to us. Perhaps by circumstance. By necessity. Or else we willingly lean into it. Sentimental is a call, an attitude, to the languid sense of an existence immersed in fluid passions. Elusive, intangible, imperious. The cogs in a fallible system of fragmented and convulsed identities, devoted to love as an existential homage and to the fall as an unavoidable end. In the perverse control of a flower that blossoms magnificently and withers meanly, puffed up with hypocritical beauty. In the need for affirmation as social recognition, in extreme individualism as the final egotistical frontier. Until the fall. Until the next kiss.
Research: Gianluca Raguso for Spring/Summer 2023 season.