Vincenzo Mastropasqua on the catwalks of Dubai | Graduate Fashion Week

On 12th October 2023, on the catwalk of Graduate Fashion Week in Dubai, our Alumnus Vincenzo Mastropasqua presented his ACM Talents 2023 “Gaga” menswear Capsule Collection!

The “GAGA” collection finds its roots in the movement language of the same name, conceived by the Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin, who places movement and form as the arche of his “philosophy”.

A “new”, liberating, perpetual, improvised, impulsive movement, which is translated by the Gaga dancers through their being “body builders with soft spines”, because while they dance they are no longer shaped by earthly chemical and physical laws, but are “sculpted” by that energy that flows from the nucleus of each individual; the very energy that shapes the works of Chewy Stoll, who, with the computer, gives marble the power to forget its solid and motionless nature, deconstructing it through movement, thus giving it the “shape” of the Gaga dancers.

The collection is built on the steps of “Ehad Mi Yodea”, a choreography capable of telling the story, through the power of movement, of each individual who, learning to strip themselves of all the constraints and formalities that society imposes, rediscovers their authentic essence; indeed, the garments embody this philosophy, paying particular attention to the concept of movement which is reflected through cuts, volumes, panels and prints; the latter the result of the reworking of the study of the movement between science and art.