Location/Setting:
In terms of industry, the "Lecce stone"—a particular kind of is
one of the city's main exports, because it is very soft and workable, thus
suitable for sculptures. Lecce is also an important agricultural centre,
chiefly for its olive oil and wine production, as well
as an industrial centre specializing in ceramic production….Wikipedia
The premise
according to the resident intellect and scholar, “la meatball,” for selecting
this location was to highlight the skills and craftsmanship of the region which
included weaving but that was according to her and not Wikipedia.
So with her
usual panache and blah blah blah she came
up with a sort of 3 ring circus replete with masked orchestra( blue paper I might
add), a small troupe of interpretive dancers, one of whom you expected to either
heave her guts out or miscarry right
there and then there was the San Gennaro/
Iowa state Fair colored lights atmosphere except that in this go around, the so
called Chiuri feminist manifesto she has been pushing since day one … was now
spelled out in lights rather than printed than on tee shirts or on banners bore
no raison d’etre in relation to the collection on any level!
Then of
course there was this matter of an almost 100-piece resort/pandemic collection that
was shown sans audience in a robotic rhythm that can only be matched to the
yawn inducing breadth and look of this collection. Think cliché Amish gypsy peasant
south of the boarder resident Russian peasant wearing Mongolian lamb and round toed
boots and a babushka on every head! One cannot ignore the laced corsets which
not only looked like made in Turkey but actual painful to wear and that also made
no sense with the clothes they accessorized.
All in all
this amounted to some somnambulistic presentation cooked up by the queen of faux
intellectuals who thought Italy was a logical place to show this repetitive,
oddly conceived collection which zigged and zagged and wound up being clothes for
the sake of clothes that had no common
thread to bind it all together except in signora’s exploding esoteric mind.
PS. The architecture
looked heavenly!
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