Alessandro Lastella

June 2015 - In his second collection Alessandro Lastella imagines a world almost post-apocaliptic. A summer of dust and mystery that reveals a hope of revival and growth. Men and women of Alessandro Lastella awake in an ambiguous and desertified world, made of geometric and unchangeable shapes, metaphysical and “dechirichiane”.

An ancestral world that reveals an humanization fallen in dust that awaits under the heat of a sun tired to shine. Clouds of sand and mystery cover everything and destabilize the sense of orientation.

An eternal and motionless earth, eternally unchangeable where fixed elements into the horizon surround the human being.

In this scenery even man became an unchangeable element, that fights and resists in his eternity. While surviving, man has proved his own uniqueness and then he finds a new force. Past technologies made of bolts, circuits, sinusoids become a new archeology that man brings back to life through this new force. The power of ideas, faith, will and creativity restarts archaic devices, bringing back them to activity in that world of sand and sad thinkings.

The surviving man rediscovered the truth in the concept and in the new vital force. This struggle reflects in shabby clothes and raw cut, harnessed in belts and frogs. The man simplifies the construction of clothes, by reducing them to a raw essential. An adventurer and researcher man that relies on military details, looking for functionality and simplification. Clothes are covered with vibrant energy of a new technological force. Ample and asymmetric volumes composed of patchwork fabrics are recovered from a far reality and adapted to the new world. Raw-cut impalpable fabrics contrast with the coated shabby materials. By re-assembling clothes with the energy of the new technologies, prints manage to echo the ancient gears. The finishes with welded ribbons seem to incubate and canalize the new just rediscovered energy. Large volumes annihilate the body shape, making it look like a timeless and solid geometry.

Warm colours are combined with lightweight cottons and cuts that emphasize the freshness of the cloth, increasing its practicality.
White and blue clash with black in an exotic and esoteric blend. Knits are arabesques that become circuits and sinusoid, converting potential energy into actual energy, through the new force that the human being rediscovered in his fight.