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Marco Mengoni he has a half skirmish with Xavier Dolan, a story of centimeters relating to the living space to comfortably sit and watch a fashion show, while a few meters away Nicholas Galitzine And Aaron Piper they chat and laugh, and no one knows exactly what for. It happens at the fashion show Fendi, to the Superstudio Maxi of via Moncucco in Milan, for the Men’s Fashion Week Spring Summer 25, underway in these days of fresh spring 24.
With just a few minutes left until the start of the show, Marco Mengoni has just made his triumphal entrance on the entrance carpet. Outside the show, perfect strangers also parade, without having any invitation to the show, but they wear very flashy looks, to have their photos taken by photographers as agitated as wasps. Marco is not the only star in the situation, although he is the most recognized and acclaimed. At the court of the brand that belonged to the Fendi sisters, now owned by the French group LVMH, but designed by Silvia Venturini Fendithey also arrive Xavier Dolan, Aron Piper, Nicholas Galitzine, Mr. Rain, Tananai, Fabien Frankel (House of the Dragon) and other Eastern stars unknown to us such as Kay Xu, Alvin Chong, Bang Chan, Zhang Ruoyun.
What did Mengoni and Dolan say to each other?
Mengoni, wrapped in a sexy ribbed cotton/silk sweater with oblique buttoning, open between the bare chest and exposed left shoulder, complete with a yellow shoulder bag (very good ed), has just settled into a space reserved for him in the front row. To his left Xavier Dolan, fresh from the presidency Un Certain Regard at Cannes 24, visibly impatient, and more or less happy to be there. He’s wearing an ill-fitting plaid polo shirt and his arms are tattooed they make gestures. Marco tries to carve out a space to sit, and Dolan, worried about the few centimeters reserved for him by the seat, begins to get agitated, while the Fendi PRs do everything they can to contain the classic chaos of the last minutes of the pre-show. As documented in a video posted by Marco himself (who probably like all of us adores Dolan’s cinematographic poetics), the director seems evidently unnerved by the messy situation, there are a few centimeters, we are packed like sardines, Well, come on, I’ll go a little further (we don’t know if he said these words, but we understand *). Mengoni’s face suspended between embarrassment and a very cordial dismay, a thousand empathy to buffer 4-5 seconds of tension and then everything seems to resolve itself in a substantial “We don’t necessarily have to talk and be friendly to watch this parade together sitting next to each other“. In short, silence falls between the two, which will last until the end of the show and au revoir. Spoiler, despite the director’s lack of sympathy, Mengoni will continue to love Dolan’s films (10 years ago Xavier enchanted the whole world with Mommy, our tribute here). Also because it seems that his announced farewell to the cinema was only the outburst of a moment of crisis.
Why are Piper and Galitizine laughing?
A few meters away, a clash between equally powerful titans goodness. Aron Piper (recently at ease in mirror selfies) and Nicholas Galitzine (about whom it is worth remembering that it is whispered that Red, White and Blue Blood it will be a trilogy) they laugh and it’s unclear what for. They didn’t notice the end-of-the-world skirmish over the missing centimeters between Mengoni and Dolan, but they had something to enjoy. It’s Piper who beats the rhythm, and Nicholas stands behind him and seems to add other lines to those just whispered by his colleague. Aron Piper wears an oversized military green shirt over matching trousers, Nicholas Galitzine, blond like a Take That from 1993, presents himself with the look of a college boy who goes to an aperitif after studying like a good nerd, regimental tie over a light blue shirt, trousers classic office worker color and a jacket played down by Japanese denim. For both look at the kiss (that is, they were gorgeous).
The Fendi fashion show, according to Andrea Batilla, fashion-guru-of-our-times, reflected the tired-very tired moment of fashion. Fendi will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the maison founded by the legendary Roman sisters, but there is little to laugh about, according to Batilla. That on Instagram she sculpts a disheartening portrait, not so much for the Roman brand now acquired by the French, but for the entire LVMH group. Andrea Batilla writes:
(…) All of fashion seems to need to deeply rethink itself but LVMH, as Imran Amed well said on BOF, is having the hardest time of all. In addition to Fendi there is Dior which is bringing disappointing results, Celine from which Hedi Slimane seems to be about to distance himself, Givenchy and Berluti without creative directions and Vuitton which creates fireworks with Pharell’s man but which is increasingly weak with Guesquière’s woman. All this cannot fail to impact Fendi’s strategic choices and consequently on this collection which, although representing the beginning of the celebrations of the maison’s 100th anniversary, was tired, repetitive, soulless. If the lack of ability to react to the crisis was just a problem for Fendi, we could not worry and wait for better times. But it isn’t. Silvia Fendi’s eyes at the end of the show conveyed a sense of helplessness that went far beyond the brand that her grandmother founded. They were perhaps trying to see how to get out of this moment of sticky, immobile, frightening darkness. It seems to me that no one is seeing that light now and in fact, thinking about it, continuing to navigate, as Silvia is doing, could be an intelligent survival stratagem.
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