Black Noir

Since the beginning of time, black has a lot to divulge, it expressed mourning, poverty, denial, revolt and it exalted the avant-garde and haute-couture.   Both rive gauche and rive droite, from lacerated and leather, to the perfection of the little black dress, from brutal bondage clothing to the monks’ modern hoods, from the black jacket to black coffee, black made a lot of ink flow.  

Black is able to express love and romanticism as well as hate and racism, in equal proportion and with the same ardor.   Black is seen in lace of a domination mask, veil of seduction and burka of discretion.  Yet, behind dark veils hides a myriad of attitudes, divergent tastes and disparate characters. 

In a chaotic century, which still cannot find its way, it seems that there is only one way out. One direction to take.  We have to merge opposites and erase contrasts to embrace and exploit the ideas of cross-breeds from various disciplines to finally bridge the gap between the two brains. To abolish bipolar thinking in favour of a worldly reflection. 

Suddenly, black seems to be the unifying of disciplines, the cloth becomes language, drawing pretends to be text, the volume is seen as flat, materials bristle, painting becomes textile, while the photo is thought of in monochrome.  We are the witnesses of an artistic scene in fusion in which all the arts combine to make a single movement, a single vision and a single discipline addressing all the senses, suspended between dimensions.

As such, revisited romanticism can be seen as a reaction against reason, capable of enhancing the mysterious and fantastic. A romanticism to escape from reality and enter into the enchantment of dreams, finding the sublime in the morbid, the vanity of fashion and design calling us beyond the expected. 

𝒟𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓃𝒾𝓆𝓊𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝓇𝒶 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓃 𝑒𝓃𝓋𝒾𝓇𝑜𝓃𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝓃𝑜𝓋𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝒾𝑔𝓃𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒸𝓇𝒶𝒻𝓉𝓈𝓂𝑒𝓃 𝓊𝓃𝒾𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝒾𝑔𝓃𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝒷𝒿𝑒𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝟤𝟣𝓈𝓉 𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓎.