In yesterday's post we compared dynamic movements in contemporary fashion with works by the Futurist painters. Let's continue the thread with a little variation keeping the future theme, but thinking about the static condition in fashion (as much as this may sound like an impossible concept since fashion is always in motion…) and let's do so via this photoshoot from the mid-'80s. The shoot showcased Cinzia Ruggeri's A/W 1986-87 collection and was entitled "La città delle donne" (City of Women).
The title calls to mind Fellini's eponymous film that mainly focused on the director's own fear and bewilderment of women.
In a way the two models perfectly embody the attraction Vs repulsion dichotomy as they look like intriguing women, yet at the same time, they may be mysterious aliens landed on a desolate planet Earth in their futuristic attires.
The garments they wear feature all Cinzia Ruggeri's signature tropes such as the zigzagging ziggurat shapes on bags and clothes, while the surrounding urban environment but dreamlike atmosphere make you almost think about the 1966 pictures of the Las Vegas Strip seen from the desert with Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown's silhouettes in the foreground.
LIke the shoot and want to discover more about Ruggeri's work? You can still catch her exhibition "CIN CIN 1980-2015" at 10 Corso Como in Milan (until 6th April).
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