Few people know this, but the web design and layout for SENATUS was built on the principle of Wabi-Sabi, the Japanese philosophy of the perfect imperfection.
It cultivates the idea that nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect.
Valentino's Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli have looked to capture the powerful modernity and the deep humanity of this assumption, in creating and developing a project named Untitled, which the brand has described as "a unisex capsule collection of classics distilled to their essence and reread through the Valentino savoir-faire."
The collection is also an examination into craftsmanship, with inspiration also drawn from the Japanese technique of kintsugi, that consists in repairing broken ceramic objects with gold powder.
The technique was born from the idea that a superior form of aesthetic and interior perfection can be the outcome of an imperfection, preserving the signs of time and use, translating them into a unicum.
For Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli the binding component are the studs.
The twelve essentials of a wardrobe, from the white shirt to the blue peacoat, from the beige trench to the jeans, from the grey T-shirt to the camel hair coat, from the crew neck sweater to the white sneakers.
A part of each item has been detached and adjusted using golden studs instead of traditional stitching.
The tension between industrial production and artisanal craftsmanship, between series and one of a kind, characterizes the project.
Each Untitled piece is identified with a progressive number, starting from 1 ending with 12, labeled on the canvas satchel that holds the garment, as if appearing anonymous.
Once worn, on the contrary, it reveals the marks of a customization with a concise, personal and decisive touch: traces of a past experience and of an internal imperfection as signs of contemporary beauty.
