With the ‘Under High Lands’ collection, Antonio Marras explored Limits that only share on geopolitical maps; A journey of the peaks of the Gennargtu massif, in Sardinia, to the Balkans Mountains between Serbia and Bulgaria. The Lexicon of Pre-Val 2025 was born from an old embroidered cap that had hung the grandfather of his wife Patrizia, who returned from Eastern Europe after the Second World War. The collection showed a journey that was undertaken by an imaginary woman named Antona, while weaving through the ribbons of his family memories.
“With this trip I will go back to the use of two terms with which I was often labeled before they were abolished from fashion vocabulary: folk and ethnic,” Marras explained. With a unique ability to weave aesthetic dialogues, only under the knee of those who can handle tradition in contemporary ways, the designer created a space that familiar with the unknown. The collection is a mix of memories converted into modernity. The prints and flower motifs, recurring elements on knitted clothing and lighter fabrics are inspired by the reconstruction of old foulard designs or the embroidery found on an old hat. Elsewhere, a mix of tassels and jacquards, male fabrics and lingerie and denim and striped cotton added an alien element to the collection that was still actually based.
Kalfshaar and Shearling, sweater as a second skin and upcycled fabric patchworks, lace, sequins, outdated-effect leather, tulle and wool: the fabrics reflected a merger of cultures that were distant spirits. The same applied to the color palette, where warm and deep tones such as brown and pink were interrupted by vibrant flashes of apple green, turquoise or acid yellow. Completion of the collection was Maxi Bijoux made from recycled plastic, sneakers and wooden platform sticks that act as a kind of Madeleine de Proust; While the father of the designer sold a similar model in his clothing store. Again, Antonio Marras ensures that people imagine that they are everywhere while they fully inhabit the present.