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He adopted, from the tailor who dressed rich women in a poor way, the experimentation with the fabrics.
Especially for the knitwear.
It is the unisex, launched by Chanel in the Twenties.
A challenge against the conformism, an arrow launched to shorten the distance between man and woman.
Chanel represents for Walter the functional elegance, an occidental fashion classic.
He designed and commissioned the production of hangers having the sharp face of Mademoiselle.
She was the steel thread, the soul allowing him stylistic excursions in other territories.
He gave Coco Chanel, who loved the essentiality of women’s body, a symbolic gift three years before dying.
He sent to California a sketch for a competition on how the woman of year 2000 would have been.
Out of theme.
But so revolutionary that he was second qualified.
A woman’s naked body in a rainbow sphere.
“She does not need clothes on”, the wording showed.
“She will use a chemical pill to make her skin transparent showing the tonalities of her emotions.
The woman of the future will wear the colours of emotions.
Changing them every day”.
WALTER ALBINI
by Carla Sozzani
tests by Anna Masucci
