{"id":97625,"date":"2019-06-16T03:12:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/16\/marni-designer-francesco-risso-shows-his-humanistic-side\/"},"modified":"2019-06-16T03:12:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:12:30","slug":"marni-designer-francesco-risso-shows-his-humanistic-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=97625","title":{"rendered":"Marni designer Francesco Risso shows his &#039;humanistic&#039; side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short of calling his collection sustainable, the creative director makes clear his view of plastics and wasteIt took four days of Italian menswear shows \u2013 between the Pitti Uomo showcase in Florence and the fashion capital Milan \u2013 for a household-name brand to use its precious moment on the world stage to engage in the conversation about the ethical context in which fashion exists right now.At the Marni spring\/summer 2020 show on Saturday afternoon, creative director Francesco Risso had the audience stand shoulder to shoulder, rather than sit, under a suspended ceiling of backlit, disregarded plastic waste. His team at the Italian fashion house have spent months sourcing from industrial sources and the oceans. Imposing and strikingly beautiful, it was to reflect \u201cthe weight of this plastic that we\u2019re feeling right now\u201d, he told the press post-show. This being the first of \u201ctwo acts\u201d, the waste will be recycled into a new collection, in collaboration with the artist Judith Hopf, for a second next season. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2019\/jun\/16\/marni-designer-francesco-risso-shows-his-humanistic-side\" target=\"_blank\">Marni designer Francesco Risso shows his &#039;humanistic&#039; side<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short of calling his collection sustainable, the creative director makes clear his view of plastics and wasteIt took four days of Italian menswear shows \u2013 between the Pitti Uomo showcase in Florence and the fashion capital Milan \u2013 for a household-name brand to use its precious moment on the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}