Simone Antonini's reflective fashion debut at Fashion Graduate Italia

At Fashion Graduate Italia, an event organized by Piattaforma Moda in November 2017 that involved major Italian fashion schools, young designer Simone Antonini presented his first collection. His approach rejects trend-driven design in favor of a reflective, word-based methodology: he wrote six poetic, surreal short stories, each linked to an archetypal garment, treating the formal outcome as almost a pretext. The collection features clean, graphic colorblock panels that frame archetypal pieces, recalling Franz Erhard Walther's textile sculptures. Antonini, who studied industrial design in Rome and earned a Master of Arts in Fashion and Textile Design at NABA, aims to reclaim design from media-driven conformity. The article was written by Stefania Seoni, a freelance journalist and lecturer at NABA, and published in Artribune Magazine #41.