This poignant question is perhaps addressed by Marni’s Spring Summer 2023 collection, currently in stores and featuring a collaboration between A#23 curator and creative director Francesco Risso and Flaminia Veronesi. Clothing, bags and accessories throughout the store are adorned with the colourful motifs and characters that populate Veronesi’s world, combining the duo’s imaginative power and disseminating it through both wearable pieces and physical experience.
Risso’s cultivation and appreciation of unbridled creativity is as apparent in his collections as in his Via Montenapoleone store, which has also served as a residency for another friend and A#23 contributor, Icelandic artist Shoplifter. The Hermitcrab’s Wundershell is a testament to the childlike curiosity central to the Marni universe, one that contemplates life and all its details with a sense of wonder and amusement.
The exhibition runs through April 30th, 2023 at the Marni Flagship Store, Via Montenapoleone 26, Milan.