All over Milan this week, the digital screens at tram stops were playing promos for the Bottega Veneta show on Saturday night. It featured faces of all races and genders dissolving into each other in a kind of pixillated “family of man” effect, which made it an effective prelude to the magical collection Matthieu Blazy showed, because he embraced the world with his clothes. “South America, Southeast Asia, Russia, Brittany, Sicily, everywhere was a possibility,” a visibly moved Blazy said after the show. “We tried to blend them to create a new culture, always connected to the idea of Italian style.”
The venue was painted as a giant abstracted map, with continents and oceans and migrating species (birds and fish) to underscore the couldn’t-be-timelier theme (on Saturday, the UK’s monstrous home secretary Suella Braverman launched yet another broadside against migrants’ rights). Blazy acknowledged that timeliness when he said, “every journey is a tribulation, everyone dreams of places they have to get to.” But he insisted his own focus had been on the idea of travel as an ideal, a transformation of body and mind. He set his course by hope.
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