The Blue Knight by Pierre-Louis Mascia shows at Pitti Uomo 106
The French designer, but Italian by adoption, presents his spring summer 2025 collection with his first fashion show during Pitti Uomo 2024. A tribute to Le Cavalier Bleu at the Tepidarium Giacomo Roster in Florence.
«This is my first fashion show, after more than fifteen years » says Pierre-Louis Mascia who presents his first fashion show during Pitti Uomo 106. «Even when I was an illustrator I imagined characters. The product arrived and the scarves were already almost clothes. Clothes have become gestures, attitudes. [...] The show that I decided to present is a tribute to a philosophy, rather than a pictorial style. They are the colors of life, they are Kandinsky's words whose echo resonates in me. He said: " None of us tries to directly reproduce nature. We try to give an artistic form to the inner universe, that is, to spiritual experience ." It is a choreography of dressed dreams, inspired by all the arts. It is an ode to freedom, to hair blowing in the wind, to silken shadows, to the melody of time: pure movement through an infinite range of shades. A chromatic dream, free from all the rigidities that threaten us, from the intransigence of thought that freezes bodies and minds."
For the spring summer 2025 men's collection Mascia imagines a group of art school students with accurate colours, beads and prints of natural and geometric origin with dynamic dégradé. Enchanted by the work of Yves Saint Laurent, he talks about his references to the East and that clash of red and orange that pervades the collection.
We worked on silk, on transparencies, on the fading from opaque to shiny, on slightly evanescent shapes: the idea is to have overlaps, different heights, contrasts between the mesh and the enveloping silk: with great refinement and delicacy, we can still express the world. For this reason we chose the Tepidarium Giacomo Roster greenhouse in Florence, a place built to host both eccentric ornamental plants and butterflies; a translucent glass building where 'Under Lucky Star' was filmed ten years ago." Pierre-Louis Mascia
