#SpringSumm18

[consciouslyrebel]

Militant Women

Time has come for 21st century woman to quit fairy tales fantasies of pink dresses princesses waiting for the happily ever after finale to come. The bourgeois spoiled and adored daddy’s favourite attitude looks demodè against the most recent socio-cultural and historical background.

 Fashion,  seems to be one of the most emerging artistic field to push for this change. The industry prooved particularly sensible to the feminist cause pushing it forwartd through the showcase of rebellious and glamorous collections for the spring summer season 2018. The clothes for the upcoming season are characterised by a visible and strong image of a combactive woman, or better, a heroine. The outfits presented in the various fashion weeks featured  new codes on their fabric, new rebellious vocabulary, new fighting tactics. The image of the  Militant Woman of today is that of a combactive warrior, who chooses action to stand out and fight for the values she believes in. This fashionable heroines express their power by wearing a different and vast array of clothing including oversized garments, masculine overalls, dangerous leather biker jackets, combat boots and chains. Everything is adorned by military and nautical references, grunge rock influences. Moreover other recurring elements could be written words or drawn prints wore as a sort of manifesto carrying a silent yet powerful message. Many designers welcomed the protest giving different yet brilliant interpretations of it.

Disquared2 has identified many different miitant powerful codes synthesizing them in clothes managing to find a perfect balance. Spacing from 90’s grunge to leather mini skirts, combat boots and aggressive metal details with a touch o leopard prints on hot pants. The brand ideal woman represent the link between a confortable past and an active future.

Moschino, instead, is a combo of pure irony and total freedom. There is no censure in Jeremy Scott’s mixure of a girly imagination of a world of unicorns and rainbows with leather jackets and fetish accessorises. The designer rendered his desire for irreverence a political message, proposing an emancipated strogn woman still consciouos of her feminine side.

Prada’s woman protest took literally shape in a vast use of images and illustrations. The collection is oriented to a reality without predjudices where a woman can identify itself with a strong heroine printed on their clothes, feeling confortable and beautiful even in mannish oriented clothes.

Lorenzo Serafini’s imagery of woman is androginous mixing both genders clothing elements.Thewy wear military and nautical dungarees and obi belt borrowed form the japanese tradition. The muse was Tina Chow, pioneress of a sensual androginous style.

Aquilano Rimondi’s main source of inspiration was joan Miro. The aertist’s legacy is to be found in the use of elementary colors and higly impactive symbols and letters printed on cotton with a touch of contemporaneity represented by the Pvc.