Valentino

Fashion has always been a language of appearance, a device that stages bodies and exposes them to the gaze. Even in our most intimate dimension we can’t escape such exhibiting nature. Hannah Arendt had it perfectly clear: being and appearing coincide, it’s what frames our very existence in the world. Accordingly, clothes certify their status of second skin, the means through which we decide to show ourselves on the stage of life. It may be just this, fashion’s most valuable legacy: depth showing itself as an interweaving of surfaces and intimacy revealing its political and poetic strength. Not at all motionless essence, but endless motion. Not a private shelter, but a shared scene.