Matthieu Blazy's debut collection for Bottega Veneta showcases a seemingly simple aesthetic that conceals deeper meanings. His approach begins with jeans and a vest top, yet the jeans, skilfully crafted from leather to appear like denim, reflect tradition, freedom, and personal identity. Blazy intertwines fact and fiction by employing diverse models that embody unique characters, each with distinct backstories, thus bridging the catwalk and reality. Descriptive elements accompanying the show create a rich narrative that enhances the viewer's experience, blending personal touches with broader themes.
These jeans, that uniform of the everyday, loaded with various meanings - tradition, street, timeless, freedom... became the motif for the realisation of a parallel world for Bottega Veneta.
Rather, this was a statement of intent, transcending the visual and engaging other senses and feelings. Blazy knew what his realisation of a world would entail from the start.
This is how he would begin to build it. It was a distinct creation, peopled with characters that would recur throughout his tenure and purposely... cinematographic in its intent.
Weird, personal, witty, idiosyncratic, fantasy and reality were intertwined in a flurry of descriptions that would accompany each look for a show.
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