Simonetta Ravizza @ FW2012 Women’s Collection

Simonetta Ravizza FW 2012 Collection haute couture is where exclusive tradition meets state-of-the-art technology. Featuring fabulous yet versatile furs and timeless, impalpable dreams, the collection is a complex and refined exercise in the duality of style and more. In the fur segment, Simonetta wanted to combine valuable techniques such as the most classic and virtuosic stranding process with a range of innovative, rough, dynamic and futuristic materials. Full of contrasts and antinomies, the result is a specular and original, aesthetic interpretation primarily expressed through the autonomous and unifying colour of black that is offset by only a few splashes of shades of white. It is an unusual blend of textures, lines and consistencies.

 

Light leather filleted from the inside and superb furs such as mink, fox, and ermine as light and as soft as velvet are paired up with the hard and almost metallic contemporary energy of neoprene, cloth, and boucle fabric. Lightness encourages the use of striking, sleek geometric lines, straight, cocoon-like, or slightly padded silhouettes, and exquisite cuts reminiscent of the golden age of French and Italian couture of the fifties and sixties. It also inspires the abstract vocation of informal art, Lisa Fonssangrives and Barbarella, Bunuel's sophisticated and bourgeois moods in Belle de Jour and Lucio Fontana's Tagli. It is a distinctive stylistic approach that embraces the allure of the past and gazes to the future with serenity and confidence.

 Simonetta Ravizza has created a total look from top to bottom that is perfect for a lunch or dinner in the city: pretty little black dresses that are sexy and practical, the ideal outfit for today's multifaceted woman and her busy day, at work or play. There are also neoprene mini-dresses with fur trim that reconfirm the same concept from a different perspective, which is the duality that characterizes the entire collection.