Sanremo 2022, the winners are the leather gloves

Men Prefer Blondes, read the title of a now very old movie, but some can’t say no to quite a few gloves to be exhibited on the Ariston stage. Passed almost on the sly in the midst of the confusion generated by the various looks spotted during the festival of Sanremo 2022it must be said that it is often the details that make us reflect on the changes taking place.

Because, if you haven’t noticed yet, there is such a buzz this year between the parterre masculine that it is almost impossible not to take note. Now undressed, now in soft colors, now in a biker version – the speech is particularly relevant for the youngest in the race – the men have decided to bet everything on corporeality. Body that, needless to say, becomes pure narrative tension. To which all that remains is to add an apparently meaningless accessory, like a pair of biker gloves or in the variant très chic long past the elbow. If for women they had been reinterpreted in a dramatic and glamorous key by divas like Marilyn Monroe (in pink satin of course) or to the Audrey Hepburn (black in this case), for the man things could be slightly different. All the more so on a crowded scene like that of Sanremo.

Rkomi

The Italian rapper and songwriter opened the dance during the first evening of the festival by presenting himself in a look total leather signed Etrowhich has all the air of faithfully reproducing the biker uniform.

Slight change of scene for the third evening when Rkomi treads the stage of Sanremo in a put as simple as it is sexy, wearing a simple white T-shirt paired with pants and gloves long not beyond the elbow strictly in leather. The reference is therefore to the dissolute imaginary of the ’80s andindie rock made of skinny pants, belts with sliding buckles and shiny or gold details. Unsurpassed? Certainly the choice of wearing gloves has little to do with the precautions of the Covid protocol.

Michele Bravi

Even the young singer-songwriter with winter colors – like the title of his song Flower winter he expects the rest – he enters the Sanremo scene with a total look Roberto Cavalli in which i glovesreds, embellished with floral details and long well beyond the elbow, become a finely armor glamor which reflects the tensions hidden behind the narratives of an increasingly experimental menswear. A gesture of appropriation of an accessory taken from the female wardrobe to free the male body from constraints that lasted centuries. A way to finally affirm an aesthetic and expressive freedom that is no longer a luxury for men.

Highsnob

In duo with the singer Hu, Michele Matera – in art Highsnob – shameless already is by nature. Sing Take care of yourself and he does it with a pair of designer leather gloves Zegna. More words have been spent on why he chose to wear them and there are rumors about everything on the web. The choice of combining them with a black suit, the male uniform par excellence, says a lot about the actual practical or functional performance of the garment. Unless they were specially made for five o’clock tea …