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“Street food @Isola”: a collaborative project Another adventure with Francesco Allegretti, an old classmate from my student days at the Monza Public Insitute of Art...

and today a professional Fashion Photographer, passionate about street art the customs and cultures of the street. Just like last year with the project “Tourist in the Square”, I decided to collaborate with Francesco on this project “Street Food @Isola” (in collaboration with ‘Class Ediore’).

And maybe where I found myself at the very moment when I made this decision was significant:
I was at Expopack, an artisan company owned by Mr. Pier Luigi Malegori which had been constructing display cabinets from plexiglass since the 80s.
I had been looking for particular solutions to display my work in my atelier and he, together with his son Cristiano, were the only people who could dedicate the time to help me find these solutions - which were impossible for others - as all skilled artisans will.
Exactly on this day, Cristiano informed me of the loss of Mr. Pier Luigi and his decision to close the company, due to the resulting crisis and the tragic loss.

I saw machinery ready to be taken apart and crates full of coloured scraps of plexiglass ready to be disposed of. Crates which reminded me of the sticky sweets on sale at the Christmas markets in Puglia.
I thought that I could recover these materials and transform them into a garment for a ‘futuristic’ model who lives like we do today, photographed opening a fridge in a supermarket.
Transparent squares, mounted on top of each other with different colours, just like sweets…
And here it is! My personal homage to Mr. Pier Luigi.
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