ACMEISM 

SUNDAY 30TH OF APRIL, 9 : 06 AM 

AKROTIRIO MAVOPETRA – GREEK ISLAND 

HIDDEN ROCK BEACH 

AFTER 9 MONTHS OF NON-STOP WORKING ON MY COLLECTION, MY BODY AND MY SOUL, I’M FINALLY RETREATING FOR A COUPLE DAYS IN SANTORINI ISLAND. 

FIRST TIME THAT I SEE THE SUN IN 2023, ENERGIES ARE GOOD, LANDSCAPES ARE OUT OF THIS WORLD AND LOOKING TO THE BLUE DOME OF THE TRADITIONAL CHURCHES REALLY AFFECTS ME AND HELP ME RELAX IN SOME WAY. 

I’M NOW WRITING THIS IN A PLACE THAT I LIKE TO CALL MY NEW OFFICE, SITTING BETWEEN ROCKS, SURROUNDED BY MINERAL COLUMNS, EYES ON THE SEA AND EARS ON SOME GESAFFELSTEIN MASTERPIECES, UNRELEASED YE SONGS, MIKE DEAN’S NEW ALBUM AND MOZART’S REQUIEM. 

THIS YEAR I’M WORKING ON MY GRADUATE COLLECTION WHICH IS THE FIRST RESULT OF A REFLEXION TREATING NEW ASPECTS OF POWER AND BEAUTY, TO TRYING TO SEE HOW CLOSE A HUMAN CAN COME TO AN ATTITUDE SIMILAR TO A GOD ON EARTH, PROCEEDING BY PUSHING HIS SELF IN EVERY ASPECTS OF HIS EXISTENCE, AS FAR AS HE POSSIBLY CAN. 

ACMEISM COMES FROM THE WORD ACME, MEANING THE TOP, THE CLIMAX. 

THE LOOKS OF MY COLLECTION ASPIRE TO INCARNATE NEW TYPES OF POWER YET TO BE DEFINED, INSPIRED BY THE HIGHEST FORMS OF HUMAN FIGURES THAT ALREADY EXISTED, LIKE EMPERORS, AS WELL AS RELIGIOUS, CULTURAL AND WAR LEADERS. 

TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS NOT A LITTERAL FASHION PROJECT, OR A SCHOOL PROJECT. IM NOT TAKING A SUBJECT AND TRYING TO MAKE SOME GODDESS LOOKALIKE WITH CODES THAT WE ALREADY KNOW, THOSE PIECES ARE PIECES OF FUTURE, WITH TONES OF REFERENCES FOR LINES, FABRICS AND VOLUMES WICH I CONFRONT AND CONTRAST, MIXED WITH THE SYMPHONY OF MY GENUINE IDEAS. 

THE GOD ASPECT IS IN THE GARMENT HIMSELF AND THE ATTITUDE OF THIS WHOLE THING. 

THIS IS NOT MADE IN A COSTUME PURPOSE ! 

THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS IS TO BE ABLE TO CHANNEL ALL MY VISION AND MY OBSESSION OF POWER INTO MODERN AND WEARABLE GARMENTS, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN COUTURE AND READY TO WEAR. 

ALL THE MENS OF MY FAMILY CAME FROM CORSICA AND WERE SOLDIERS OR ATHLETES, SO BEING PROUD, SELF DISCIPLINED AND STRONG MINDED IS ALWAYS BEEN A HUGE PART OF MY MOMENTUM. 

THIS IS ALSO ONE OF THE REASON WHY BEFORE WANTING TO BE A DESIGNER, I WANTED TO BE FOOTBALLER THEN A MILITARY, ALWAYS ADDICTED TO THE PERSPECTIVE OF CONQUEST AND COMPETITION IN THOSE AREAS. 

THIS IS WHAT KEEPS ME ALIVE. 

AS A YOUNG MAN LIVING IN INSTABLE TIMES WITH POLITICAL, MILITARY WARS AND SOCIAL IDENTITY CRISIS, I LOOKED IN THE PAST TO ANALYSE THE REACTION OF THE ARTISTS THAT I LIKE IN THE EARLY 20´S AND 30’S, BECAUSE OF THE SIMILARITIES OF THEIR TIMES WITH MINE. 

THEY WERE TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE, THE ONES WHO WERE CONQUERED BY FEAR AND DID NOTHING OR JUST DIED, AND THEY WERE ARTISTS WHO SAW THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY, A TIME OF CHANGE AND CREATED THE MOST AMBITIOUS AND DEEP ARTS MOVEMENTS NEVER SEEN LIKE FUTURISM OR METAPHYSIC ART. 

OBVIOUSLY THE FINAL QUESTION WAS : 

ARISTOTE, FIRST OF ALL, WHAT KIND OF THOSE TWO TYPES OF MEN ARE YOU ? AND HOW WILL YOU REACT AS A CREATIVE ?? 

ACMEISM IS THE ANSWER : 

A FIRST ATTEMPT TO TRANSLATE MY DREAMS, WITH STRONG AESTHETIC AND METAPHYSICS VALUES TWISTED IN A CARNAL, DIRECT AND SENSUAL APPREHENSION OF REALITY.