Announcement

**drizzly** · 04-04-2016, 02:06 PM

Originally posted by Faust View Post

What do you mean "hung up on"? Altieri offers the story for critical interpretation and that's what he's getting. It's only fair.

Altieri doesn't need to do anything. But if he wants to still be considered a serious designer, he's going to have to step up and make something instead of writing manifestos.

Whats your definition? Does a designer have to make clothing to be a designer?

**Faust** · 04-04-2016, 02:15 PM

Originally posted by drizzly View Post

Whats your definition? Does a designer have to make clothing to be a designer?

Dude, I don't think you are reading what I'm writing.

**drizzly** · 04-04-2016, 02:39 PM

Originally posted by Faust View Post

Dude, I don't think you are reading what I'm writing.

"Altieri doesn't need to do anything. But if he wants to still be considered a serious designer, he's going to have to step up and make something instead of writing manifestos."

Based on that i am asking if a designer has to make clothing or can he be focused on shoes.

Anyways forget it...

**Faust** · 04-04-2016, 03:26 PM

Well, if he wants to be a shoe designer, sure he can concentrate on shoes. But that's a whole different story, a far more narrow one than you can tell with a full clothing line. Few people cared about Paul Harnden when he was just making shoes. Louboutin will never be Galliano. And so on.

**swims** · 04-04-2016, 05:59 PM

isn't the point that the story is... a non-story?

cumulative experience = diffuse, neutral design
analytic = impersonal, non-author (non 'designer')
eschewing decoration = function>
archetypes = emphasis on craft (non 'design')
organic = same point re. carpe+. 'second skin' as people often stated
degradation/ attrition not argued = decadence

designs with one foot in the past and one in the future to take on a sort of neutrality. highly polished but meant to be worn through. decadent but without decoration. these strike me as intentional paradoxes, absurdity or something. they don't add up to tell a tale - and why is that necessary?

--

trying to frame this stuff into the work of the 'artist designer', with a narrative and all that other fodder for fashion criticism doesn't make sense.

is it because...

1. approbation as a "serious designer" is good?
2. the number of people interested = value?

in both of these cases it might be true, but aren't these industry criticisms? they don't discuss the non/story in that poster up there.

--

and anyway, despite carpe's strong aesthetic sensibility, was that really the story? didn't it share the same 'paradoxical' design'? if you could respect carpe, mmoria strikes me as the logical continuation and can be viewed broadly as the same project.

**dalmatas** · 04-05-2016, 05:18 AM

rare and unseen archive shot

Carpe Diem / Archive Exclusive | NASTY Magazine

http://www.nastymagazine.com/fashion/carpe-diem-exclusive-by-marco-giuliano/

Inner Emptiness, a cool breathe of tranquillity blows, comes to end the Tempest of our soul. An exclusive insight on Maurizio Altieri's Carpe Diem rare and unseen archive shot by Marco Giuliano and styled by Anca Macavei.