Antonio Fontana - An Artist's Selfishness

Creativity is a process of flowing and continuous walking. When Hemingway is not writing, he hunts in Africa, bullfight in Spain, fishing in deep sea in Florida. Picasso, who does not paint, lays great stress on his doggerel in the home of blue beach. When he does not design clothes, Antonio walks in streets and streets in Brazil to study architecture, and decides to split life into two halves, half of Milan and half of Brazil.

She worked in MIU MIU and PRADA women's clothing.

Antonio Fontana did not like to talk about his resume. When asked to introduce himself, he said, "Hello, I am a designer. I do not like to stay too long on an idea, overturn the wall between reality and illusion, and constantly reinterpret the world around us, and the cognition of past and future.

Using design to support curiosity and exploration, this process fascinated me. "

(PRADA 2017 early autumn Series)

Antonio, who was still working as a Miuccia Prada assistant, decided to make a home for himself on the land of Rio. At that time, he was designing the winter dress series for Prada. Brazil, a country with a tone of green and gray color, was fascinated by him, and finally came to Rio. Only five days later, he had held the key to the new seaside in Brazil.

"I knew Brazil through design, and then I fell in love with Rio. This city, the people here, I saw more than 20 apartments, and finally decided to stop at the beach of Bar o da Torre."

The building built in 50s made Antonio fall in love with it when walking on the ladder. The blue and white brick wall told the story, and there was a feeling of crossing when the door opened.

After that, he came here at least three times a year. The interior structure of the house was decorated by the help of designer Samir Roberto Taha, and furniture was furnished from Sergio Rodrigues and Zanini de Zanine, which came from Italy all the way.

In his mind, the 80s classic movie "Baghdad cafe" was shown in his mind. Deep blue and dark red rubbed into his new house, showing his love of the new "color balance", which is complementary to the city of Rio.

(right from the first place: Antonio Fontana)

In the next three years, Antonio bought another three apartments in the building and resigned from Prada's work. He said, "in the past ten years of Prada group, I admire Miuccia, but I'm almost 50. I need to design and create more independence and freedom.

I also want to have more control over my time, so now I decide to do something I like and shuttle between Rio and Milan, the two cities I love.

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Antonio, who was born in architecture, eventually devoted himself to

Is this not the artist's selfishness? Architecture is a "rest" for him, compared with the design of clothes.

The theory of Antonio is: architecture is not afraid of the old, but even the more precipitating the heart, the better the space can be designed. But the clothes are the young fields that need to be kept young. "You can feel that Valentino and Karl Lagerfeld are beginning to get scared. Compared with Balenciaga, Givenchy and Riccardo Tisci, their vitality obviously decreases. However, fashion needs constant revolution, so the pendulum in my mind is now slightly tilted to the building side."

For his constant audience, Antonio, he said that he was quite persistent in his elegance. This calm and powerful sense of motherhood had broken through the barriers of time and culture; and more and more, he found himself fascinated by Oriental women and their cultures. Chinese women were on the cross nodes of the age, they were both sweet and sexy, and they had different bearing capacity and tolerance with European women.

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Showing this beauty of harmony is the latest challenge for Antonio, and is different from MIU MIU's design for lively girls. Perhaps in the East, he can find a place where he can gradually mature his heart.