Never a title has been more evocative for the Andrea Pompilio’s Spring Summer collection: “Welcome to the pleasure dome”.
The Andrea’s ‘pleasure dome’ differs from the one described in the Frankie goes to Hollywood’s eponymous song: his one more romantic and carefree, the other one more gothic and transgressive; in any case the common denominator is surely the desire for freedom.
The real transgression for Andrea is to be free to get dressed with beautiful clothes, very well manufactured, declining in unusual outfits, enhancing them to their best. A cross-sectional wardrobe made of genderless garments with which we can have fun to create our look, certain to please others and like ourselves.
Leaving for a weekend in Coney Island urban style merges with casual: The suit’s trousers combines with a relaxed shirt, the jacket’s sleeves becomes three quarters and the tank takes the place of the shirt under the suit.
Through the power of this freedom also fabrics meet the challenge to play an other role compared to what they borned for. So we can identify a striped popeline, typical of a man’s shirt, which is adorning with precious French lace to give birth to a top or a long slip dress.
The raincoat, as well as the male suits and the accessories, quit the ordinary textiles in favour of luxury brocades and nylon printed with an unprecedented floral print.
T-shirts are manifactured in wool, just like the tank tops, which you can wear directly over body, as under jacket or a vest, and cropped tops, weared as wrap or under the dress.
17th October 2021
Edited, written and translated by Andrea Siro
Pics: Andrea Siro and courtesy of Andrea Pompilio Press Office
