A red shirt with a bow tied around the neck, a fixed gaze at the camera and a steady and controlled voice, capable of conveying a message that helps to reflect and look inside. This is how the director of Vanity Fair Italy Simone Marchetti appears on the stage of Hyenas, the popular Italia 1 program created by Davide Parenti, in the episode of Wednesday 23 March, starting a monologue based on the strait relationship between fashion and politics and how the shell can mirror the wearer’s interior. Thinking that fashion is a discourse exclusively linked to clothes is, in fact, an appraisal that does no honor to anyone. Fashion is art, it is the mirror of a value, the amplifier of a thought and, as such, it has an incredible power that is very often underestimated. During his speech – which we propose in its entirety below – Simone Marchetti emphasizes this aspect, inviting viewers to recognize appearances and unmask those who use fashion as if to hide the distortions that it contains within itself. With a message to Matteo Salvini (yes, we are also talking about the pro Putin T-shirt).
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Here the full intervention of the director of Vanity Fair Simone Marchetti to Hyenas:
This shirt is for female. A man can’t put it on.
But who decides what it is for a man or a woman?
What is good or bad?
Fashion is strange, it is powerful.
It is pornographic.
It stays on our skin and accompanies us everywhere.
Fashion defines us.
Fashion is not about clothes.
Clothes are for two things: to protect us. From the cold, from the heat.
And to conform. To the work that is done, to the social context, to religion.
Fashion, on the other hand, serves to differentiate oneself.
To write your own story.
And sometimes the story, the one with a capital S.
Take the war in Ukraine, where David and Goliath challenge each other.
On the one hand there is Volodymyr Zelens’kyj.
His military green T-shirt is the sling of resistance, a manifesto so powerful as to create an icon, to awaken Europe, to motivate an entire people.
On the other hand, there is Putin, a Goliath bottled in a 12,000-euro jacket, a piece of cloth so strong that it alone unmasks all the lies told in the Moscow stadium.
Fashion, then, can also be a disguise, like those of Matteo Salvini’s eternal Carnival. The problem, however, is that everyone forgets Matthew’s proclamations and twists. But no one will ever forget his T-shirt with Putin’s face.
Nothing can be learned from war and certain politics.
On the other hand, you can learn a lot from fashion.
If you learn to dress with your thoughts,
your clothes will become your destiny.
Finally, a tip for Matteo. But also for everyone. When people ask Miuccia Prada how to be fashionable, how to be elegant, she responds with a simple verb: study!
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Source: Vanity Fair
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