The beating sound of an ‘80s song echoes from a crowded room, where people of all kinds dance to the same rhythm under the pulsing light of coloured neons. No dress code, no age limits, no rules: welcome to the DROMe Lost Club. This season Creative Director Marianna Rosati dedicates the Fall Winter 2022/23 Collection to the world of live music, discos and clubs, which have been one of the worst affected industries during the pandemic, and are still recovering from it. Music has always been an essential source of inspiration for DROMe, a fundamental part of each collection. The Lost Club is at the same time a metaphor for what we’ve had to let go and an invitation to bring it back, it represents the urge to retrieve the unique shared experience of live music.
The collection recalls the nocturnal atmosphere of a nightclub, expanding the style codes that define the DROMe aesthetic: a radical eclecticism made of contrasts and contradictions. Feminine and masculine imageries collide throughout the collection, subverting stereotypes and expectations. Focusing on trench coats and outerwear, silhouettes combine classic formalwear with bold unexpected details: deep slits, corsets, garter belts and shiny patent leather. A daily uniform that fades into a night look, blending the lines, overturning the definitions – from desk to disco. British artist Linder Sterling and her subversive collages have inspired this overlapping, the convergence of opposite worlds. Her photomontages put together images of pornography publications with clippings of lifestyle magazines, challenging the mechanics of gender and bringing to light the fantasies and repressions that underlie our social expectations of identity. The iconic biker perfecto jacket is a main theme: deconstructed and presented in different variations, its details can be found in corsets, coats and pants. The collection portrays a polished sophisticated look with a punk attitude, a daring elegance that exposes a provocative side. The palette is made of contrasting blacks and whites, with flashes of airline blue, lipstick red and softer shades of chocolate brown, nude and deep forest green. David Bowie’s 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour is one of the main references of the collection. The fearless manifestation of his many personalities and characters, expressed visually as much as musically, is the most forceful manifesto of the message that each of DROMe’s collections embody.
We are collages of influences, contradictory combinations of inputs, constantly redefining our own meanings, transcending the categories of expectation.
We are collectors of personalities.
