Designing Fabrics
May 15, 2004 | bengisu
text by Clara Mantica & photos by Saverio Lombardi Vallauri.
The inspiration often comes from exhibitions,? says Dall?Olio, ?like the one on Bugatti, which made me want to use gold, rope and bronze, or the one on Lyon in the 1700s, with the striking rustic damasks.? But apart from the world of culture, stimuli can also come from the wrappers of chocolates, a cartoon, a gadget, the new Asian luxury or ancient Japanese folklore. Dall?Olio?s archives contain a myriad of documents - textile relics like lace, kimonos, old curtains, handbags, shoes and clothing, but also objects of all kinds, crafts and plastic toys.
To balance out this kaleidoscopic blend the studio, designed by Arch. Danilo Parisio, is geometric, white, orderly, like a big container for fragments. The ability of people who work on trends lies in seeing, in advance, the small changes that announce major movements: ?I watch fashion, but I am attracted by things that are out of tune, distractions with respect to the overall guidelines of the collections. watch fashion, but I am attracted by things that are out of tune, distractions with respect to the overall guidelines of the collections Dall'Olio says. I trust my changes of taste: all of a sudden I like something different than before, so I start there on a new r
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