Sylvio Giardina (Paris, 1967) is a creative having a double identity as haute couture designer - a fifteen years working experience for high fashion brands -, recently involved in the launch of his own new brand and also as artist featuring along with Raffaele Granato in the artistic duo Stato di Famiglia of whose work merges a bright dualism of his design research.
The Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection is based on the study of a new silhouette exploring a displaced center of mass, an apparent imbalance of shapes, volumes and cuts assembled in asymmetric panels that reshape the figure, giving rise to an architecture of fabrics that revises the standard proportions, drawing a new female identity. The outfits are the expression of a search focused on the creation of a genuine line, dialoguing with two worlds, female and male, fashion and art, depicting a femininity joining the culture of Italian high tailoring to avant-garde suggestions of contemporary times. Embroideries on jersey meet the lines of woofs sewed by use of innovative cuts where the sleeve leaves the circle, arising from a unique cut of fabric - without including any armhole - and the curves depart from the reversed shoulder pads assembled to emphasize the décolleté.
A sophisticated and incisive aplomb, featuring synthetic colours as helium blue, cadmium yellow along with anthracite grey and impure white, sartorial lines of pants, tubedresses, shirts and structured jackets, made of male fabrics as cool wool, wool crepe and also the sensual wool jersey embroidered with Sangallo lace, is defined by avant-garde accessories - coloured mirror and Plexiglas buckles and belts - coming out of the Winter fabrics, becoming a sculptural element. The collection escapes from the traditional clichés amenable to ready to wear and high fashion and it impregnates with contaminations coming from the art and design, realm where Sylvio Giardina successfully expresses his bright creativity as artist and designer.
