MARCO RAMBALDI

The Marco Rambaldi collection for Fall Winter 2019/2020 takes its starting point from the work of Marcella Campagnano collected in the book “ROLES” of 1974.
The photographic volume narrates the feminist radicalism of the seventies depicting women who, with tricks and disguises, interpret the various roles that the social imposes on them, moving a direct critique on the limits and the narrowness of a preconstituted and masculine society.

Marco Rambaldi reviews the social characterizations in a contemporary key and in a seemingly light way, highlights its fluid character in becoming less anchored to specific schemes and more reactive to changes.
It’s a photograph of today, in which strong progressive forces fight against reactionary attitudes, in which conservatism and free thought manifest as tendencies in opposition and struggle.

Each outfit represents a different prototype of a woman: the manager, the lover, the activist, the prostitute, the transsexual, the student, the heroine. Representations are deliberately not coherent because the feminine today is increasingly a research territory, much still to be explored.

The collection traces, if possible in an even deeper way, themes that in a short time have built a personal and recognizable aesthetic: color and decoration, the passion for outerwear and knitwear, the synthesis between masculine and feminine and the mix of high and low Italian culture, popular and academic.

The formal structure starts from the rules of the male wardrobe through the rediscovery of classic sartorial constructions and passes through the pure feminine joy. Coats and jackets are made with great attention to details, clothes and knitwear are always printed and made with the jacquard technique.

The decoration is, as always, extremely articulated through the recurring collage print, the peacock design, used both on the fabric and on the knitwear, the writings of the female roles and the jacquard that represents a tangle of bodies and faces.