African trends for Maiani Fashion Academy which brings to the foreground a precious fabric, the Faso Danfani, a raw cotton with multicolor stripes, characterized by a large texture with bright colors obtained with natural pigments and dyes, bright colors from orange to pistachio green, to the burnt colors of the desert, handcrafted on small wooden looms by the women of the Mossi Tribe of the central region of Burkina Faso. Traditions linked to the centuries-old craftsmanship of the African continent that become an element of a futuristic and ecological fashion, finishing of belts, tasche, bretelline, edges, inlays of trousers and shirts for colorful geometric effects.
Leather bodices, mesh t-shirts and turtleneck shirts, continuous stylistic evolutions towards echo- fashion, a fashiongreen in defense of the environment and the planet. No waste is allowed anymore.
Organic fibers and eco-sustainable materials are the essence of the new fashion of the future, together with the recycling of old garments that become the means to create new ones.
And here is discarded sports uniforms, old jeans jackets, Leather, masculine jackets and grandmother's sheets turn into wedding dresses, basque, skirts constructed from many small multicolor bands in movement, oversized jackets worn on frayed asymmetries, embellished with crochet accessories. Le camicie, readjusted, they are the basis of small bustiers, worn with short colored shorts.
The dress becomes for theMaiani Moda Academy a means of narration to tell the recycling of the old and the rebirth of the new, the modern vision of garments with raw fabrics, Natural, handmade, the solution of innovative designs such as those of pointy bodices on superimposed skirts with geometric effects, inspired by workmanshipKintsugi, the ancient Japanese art that repairs broken ceramics with gold casting. Floral dresses from distant times, embellished with padded circular stitching, they acquire a cartoonish flavor, as they parade through imaginary Zen gardens.
Symbiosis of sea and land in the old traditional costumes of the city of Formia in lower Lazio, rethought with the bright colors of African cotton fabrics for a new interpretation of the past, carried by the creativity of young people towards the future.
For the presentation of this collection theMaiani Fashion Academy, in collaborazione con lRUFA Academy, made a Video Shooting signed by the students of the photography course.
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