Sunday 28 September
showroom CoSTUME NATIONAL
Milano, via fusetti
sunday afternoon

Just three days to go before the Paris fashion parade!
And here in the Via Fusetti showroom in Milan, Ennio Capasa (accompanied by his brother Carlo, designer friend Fabio Novembre and Rodeo Magazine’s editor Massimo Torrigiani) is working on the items in the new collection.

The atmosphere is relaxed and informal, the conversation about clothes and inspirations. Ennio’s assistants note down any changes to be made and shuttle between the showroom and the tailoring room – the workshop where the clothes are made up and transformed.
The look-board is slowly taking shape yet it will be modified several times – right up to the very last moment.

The model parades up and down in a sensual, ultra-light black and white dress. Ennio decides it needs shortening to reveal more leg.
In the meantime fabrics are being shaped in the tailoring shop. The search for the right details and their richness is striking: silks, satins, meshes, an interplay of lightness and transparencies with subtle technological hints reminiscent of fish scales.
How Ennio will decide to use them can only come as a surprise!

Massimo is jotting down notes for an article on the ins and outs of a fitting and what goes on behind the scenes in preparing a new collection – the final part of long and painstaking job.
Carlo Capasa is highly focused and concentrated: “These are the really key moments in the birth of collection and its composition. The end of a story. We’re starting with the C’N’C collection which is easier and younger to then move on to work on the Costume one which is far more conceptual and difficult.”

Quite a task!
“For this next season we have taken inspiration from digital architecture and shapes created by 3D experts.”

Work will end only late at night with the usual graveyard-shift hours common to these pre-show weeks.
Tomorrow is the last day of fitting, a day when part of the team will already be on its way to Paris.