Francesca Liberatore Fall Winter 2022 – 2023 at Milan Fashion Week
Every act of creation is, first and foremost, an act of destruction. New life requires the sacrifice of an already completed life since destruction, like creation, is one of the laws of nature. “…I grew up believing that I was a pacifist ready to shoot…”
The first thing you learn is not the act, but the gesture of the act. The dress is the idea, but in wearing it, the body kills it. An unsolved riddle, that murder. One solitary satisfaction, the misery of the murderer.
A question mark on trench coats, guns, clues, prints and embroidery everywhere in contrasting black and white, fluorescent on smoky gray. The lines are broken, creating asymmetries with which jackets and sweaters, dresses and robe manteau play with lacing and knotting. Or they become backdrops on belted suits and boxy jackets, of detailed crime scene floor plans with intricate jacquards in which shades of lilac predominate among rosy beige and camel.
The ambiguity between the possibilities conceives the mystery, revealing the actors as the six characters involved in the drama, masks of alleged suspects described by the designer, icons of the Fashion Business. The match continues between the two-tone boots in white/black or red/black, paired with a crepe circle cape, a dark overcoat with red flocked traces of the crime, midnight blue jacquard suits, a quilted jacket and high-waisted pants.
“…What does a model take on a trip?” concealed in a body-shaped leather bag? The victim lingers at the scene observing an inescapable fate, as if from above. Her knit heart embellished in fluorescents and violet with ‘Francesca Liberatore’ evidenced in large letters…will it beat again?
About Designer
FRANCESCA LIBERATORE (Rome,1983) graduates at CentralSaintMartins in 2007 and immediately starts work for some of the world’s most celebrated design houses including Viktor&Rolf-Amesterdam, JeanPaulGaultier-Paris and Brioni woman.
In 2009 Liberatore steps out on her own and launches her namesake label winning Next Generation competition promoted by Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana and earning runways show during MilanFashionWeek. The following years she shows in Paris, London, Canton, Saint Petersburg, Minsk, Warsow, thanks to special capsules and important international partnership projects, including Moulin Rouge Paris, Saga Furs, Swarovski, Nafa, Lineapelle and more.
Her work have been installed in Museo della Triennale and in Museo della Permanente in Milan so as in Edieuropa Gallery in Rome.
In the years Francesca shares her unique experience, know-how and style teaching in Italy and abroad (as Accademia Belle Arti di Brera where she is faculty member and Head of Fashion, Naba Milano and Rome, Marist University NewYork also as Fashion Advisory Board Member) and as international expert for the United Nations – Giordania, Vietnam, Perù, Armenia, Pakistan, Cuba.
In 2014 Francesca Liberatore wins the DHL Exported Award, a direct link to an important partnership with IMG Fashion, that brings her to permanently show her collections during the New York Fashion Week and since September 2014 she officially showed at Lincoln Center Salon, The Moyniahn Station at the Dock Skylight and Gallery 1 at Clarkson Square.
On February 2018, after significant seven seasons at the NYFW, she came back to MFW showing at Palazzo Reale in Piazza Duomo and in the same year, she celebrate 10 years of carrier with her first book published by Silvana Editoriale.
In september 2019 for the first time off-schedule for her SS2020SS2020 Liberatore decided to experiment aa brand new format showing in the swimming pool of Bagni Misteriosi held by the Theatre Franco Parenti, a successful collaboration with Arena and FIN and also signing the training swimsuits of the Italian National Swim Team for the Olympics of Tokyo ss2020.
From that time the designer choosed her very individual way supperted by strong partners such as The Space Cinema in Piazza Duomo e lala Rinascente Milano in february 2020, Cambi Casa d’Aste in sept 2020, digital fashion week supported by Cameramoda and Urban Vision Screen in Milano, Rome and Time Squares in NYC in feb 2021, Arab Fashion week in Dubai, and again at The Space Cinema with Naumachia Network with the first live and 3D olographic show.
All images courtesy of Francesca Liberatore