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A not casual connection with Gehry work that highlights the ambitions and the awareness of having constructed an object with an high level of beauty and innovation.

Starting from a traditional principle such as the origami, and form a primary inlay, the Issey Miyake Maison develops a prototype with unlimited plastic potentials. The PVC plates joined together with new mathematic-textile techniques, shape a changeable accessory, that model itself according to its content, to the way how is wore, or even just how is put down. In a constant game of shapes and reflections, the colours are enhanced by the gleams that the PVC itself catches and reflects.

It is also treated at the same level of the best vehicle bodies, in fact the small triangular modulus undergoes to the same spectacular and indelible painting of the Lexus cars, excellence of the well-known Japanese brand Toyota, in a twinning thinkable only by the Miyake ideational farsightedness.

Every tiny particular of this object refers to the complexity hidden behind its designing. Moreover, thanks to the sophisticated proprietary technologies developed by the Maison, it’s rooted out the recurring problem of the production waste (here completely non-existent) and the final product becomes an unique ensemble, sheltered from badly realised clones and replicas.

The umpteenth genius strike of Issey Miyake that, through Bao Bao line, with its different models from bags to the more basic key holder, made again accessible and wearable the joy of colour and the limitless expressive possibilities of shapes.

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Completed studies in architecture, specialising in gemmology. Training that ranges from the macro to the micro, within which Simona Tagliaferri developed her passion for accessories, and more generally for the structures in materials. An experience that has involved collaborating with leading international brands, and resulted in the pieces carrying her name being exhibited in various contemporary art galleries, including the prestigious MoMa Gallery in New York. An imperceptible signature, the S and the T are placed directly in focus on the material of her creations, magnificent handbags and some spectacular capes designed using the same decorative principles as the accessories.

Her vast experience in the design of leather and metal makes it possible for Simona Tagliaferri to achieve an original fusion between the two materials, creating the Anima range of medium and large-sized bags and weatherproof shoulder bags that have a waxed and wrinkled effect, and defy a rigid shape.

A project that revolves around the simple premise that a bag, in its everyday context as a reference item of life, which is increasingly conducted outside the home, must respond to needs that are firstly practical: lightness, spaciousness and resistance. Pockets and zips are easily accessed and each compartment is very spacious.

There is special attention to the product’s aesthetics based on the idea that this represents a piece of baggage that will be carried around the entire day, and which should be able to fit one’s entire world; the product is metropolitan and essential, expressed in neutral shades, from pitch black to pale grey, thanks to the leather that has been treated using ecological and anti-allergic methods, and then combined with linen and metal.

A bag that one could become attached to, and which easily integrates and corresponds with clothing that has strong artistic, experimental and cosmopolitan tendencies.

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