Antonio Marras Fall/Winter 2025 at Milan Fashion Week

Antonio Marras Fall/Winter 2025 / FW25 at Milan Fashion Week presents THE REDISCOVERED OPERA – A MELODRAMMA IN TWO PARTS 1892. Melodrama is A theatrical drama sung with an instrumental accompaniment (nowadays commonly known as opera).

LA BELLA D’ALGHERO, a melodramma from 1892. Intrigued, they launched their investigation. Only in Pesaro, in fact, and in the National Library of Bologna—no trace in Sardinia. The opera, with music by Giovanni Fara Musio and a libretto by Antonio Boschini, had been staged for the first and only time in the Concert Hall of the Rossini Music School in Pesaro. No score survived, only the libretto with dialogues and some explanatory notes. The original score was painstakingly reconstructed.

Story of Melodramma, The story is a classic mess of her, him, the other man and the other woman, but it’s somewhat more complicated as vying for the affections of Efisio are two sisters. Eulalia, a young, beautiful commoner (the chorus describes her as a fleeting star of our town), is loved and returns the affections of the handsome rifleman Efisio, however, she is promised to the fisherman Gavino, while her sister Rosalia, envious and resentful, loves Efisio, who despises her in return. Rosalia (blinded by love) convinces her sister Eulalia to leave Efisio in order to honour her commitment to marry Gavino, to then take Efisio for herself. But the handsome rifleman, heartbroken, refuses to marry Rosalia. The plot is further complicated by the chorus of townsfolk, who serve as witnesses to the whole affair, sometimes enthusiastic, sometimes astonished, and Luisu, Efisio’s father. In the end, the protagonist, deprived of Eulalia’s love, attempts a dramatic suicide by throwing himself off the promontory of Capo Caccia. HORROR! The melodramma ends with the chorus’s final word.

The inspiration for the Antonio Marras FW25 / Fall/Winter 2025 : Melodramma, Alghero, origins, Catalonia, Antoni Tàpies, Bizet’s Carmen, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie and Cet obscur objet du désir , cult films by Luis Buñuel and countless roses. Photographic, subtle, jacquard, flocked, reproduced, hand-drawn.

Details of Antonio Marras FW25 / Fall/Winter 2025, the collection use Fabric from Pinstripe, Prince of Wales, check, semi-plain, fil-à-fil, herringbone, textured jersey, velour, brocade, damask, Ottoman jacquard, leather, denim, knitwear, stretch, taffeta, silk twill, georgette, satin, voile, tulle. Silhouette come from Tailored, layered, body-hugging, voluminous, micro and maximalist.

Brushstrokes, drawings, sketches, portraits, signs, and ciumpulls, cioroddus (as the people of Alghero call their artistic mishaps), directly created by Antonio Marras on the garments. Clothes like blank sheets on which to pour his signature motifs: hands, roses, stripes, dots, lines, and portraits. As Antonio Marras says: ‘I am passionate about giving a voice to seemingly mute things so that they become garments that speak.’