Federico Cina’s Transitions
Federico Cina embarks us on a journey through the foggy streets of his beloved Romagna. We witnessed a fleeting moment, a transition, reflected by the models as they walked across the white box that made up the catwalk stage. As they emerged onstage, everything became clearer, vivid, and limpid, even if reflecting the marks of an ongoing process that still has to be shrugged off. And so Federico Cina’s fall-winter 24 progresses in a grey location, in the colours of nothingness. Tinsel and decorations in the collection give way to rigour, clean, essential forms. Thus, Federico Cina feels the need to simplify and remove. Tailoring then is rigorous, structured, and prickly like the cold. Then comes the knitwear, the brand’s main focus, which instead wraps and warms. Cina then brings the transition to the catwalk, now rigid like tailoring, now soft and fragile like knitwear. At the end of the show, a metal structure takes centre stage on the catwalk and a human tower closes the show to symbolise, perhaps, the strength we find in the base and the fragility of the path that rises to the top. Sitting in the front row, we met Michele Ciavarella, David Martin, Alessio Pierucci and Greta Futura.
Photos: Vincenzo Migliore
