Arnoldo][Battois

Collection s/s 2012

The theme of new Arnoldo][Battois Spring Summer 2012 collection is the trace, memory of colors, shapes, lights and materials. Traces as... ... sinuous metropolitan rails on which fluorescent cars run ... colored transparent shadows, ghosts of ancient metal ornaments ... dynamic and complex plots, reminding invisible cities ... memory generating ideas. Converging cuts with choking macros threads in fluorescent lacquered python and a curious metal accessory of an old military messenger bag renew classic shapes in rubbery aniline calf. Dense networks of nodes in waxed cotton and transparent rubber thin out to reveal the color of bags in plongè nappa hanging from curious metal bars. Shapes in fluorescent transparent Plexiglas combine themselves with a surface in drummed kid, flat folds, multiple bellows and fluorescent threads to define a "new vintage". Jointed hammered brass plates held together by slotted screws, memory of medieval armors, bridle soft leather bags in plongè nappa worked with macro stitching. Anthropomorphic volumes, previously developed with rich pleats, they loose their complex texture to reveal their architecture.

The palette of colors, features by fluorescent red and yellow flashes, in inspired to the world of Polaroid and faded pictures: shades of green between the milk mint and sage with intense peaks reaching the merger with turquoise, white mixed to gray and sand, pale coral contaminated by beige, pinkish cognac, faded purple and laminated bronze chameleon reflecting related colors. Furthermore the gold plating fades, as affected by time, almost turning into platinum. The collection is contaminated with the indefinite to create exclusive and timeless items.

It dissolves the colors with delicate transparency of watercolors, it transforms the friezes into X-rays of light, it dilutes the contents to gracefully tell, it speaks about fragments of the past faded by time, it describes the ever-changing experience.