Chapter 3 Give me back the color

--------------- Give me back the color --------------- If you have loved before, will you love again? The red velvet coat that was given to her looked like a thick and heavy velvet flying felt. In fact, she had never worn it in public, but once lent it to a fashion designer friend to teach and exhibit it.The day we made up our minds to buy it, we might have gone crazy, because this coat has already been reduced to a third of its original price, which is a quarter of my monthly salary ten years ago, and it cost HK$9,960. This is an Italian fashion designer RomeoGigli's coat, which is worn on the left and right. There is really no one correct way to wear it—a big red flower that is too heavy. I can only say this to her at the end of the trial.

Because of obsession and love, even people and things are close to crazy, so buy, buy, buy. Looking through the corners of the closet that haven’t been touched for a long time, we actually owned quite a few GIGLIs: men’s and women’s clothing, and no less than ten long coats made of blended fabrics made of thick, thin, cotton, and velvet. , four or five pieces of shirts, three pairs of trousers, several types of women's tops, one type of sleeved gloves, two bottles of perfume, one pair of glasses... All of a sudden, the hasty years of the precocious middle-class youth suddenly ran back.

The color class I took when I was studying was really boring, and I couldn't get it out of the practice of color brightness and purity all day long, but I attributed the credit for this epiphany to GIGLI a few years after graduation.In his two-storey store at CorsoVenezia 11 in Milan, I seemed to know what color is for the first time, and all kinds of colors danced in front of me: earthy yellow, orange orange, navy blue, eggplant purple, peacock blue, rose red, strawberry red, Water green, olive green, charcoal gray, purple gold, iron silver... are both feminine and masculine.There are also those bright materials that are tempting to touch, those exquisitely woven patterns, as for the shape that wraps around the body layer by layer, the soft wrinkle in summer and the thick and gorgeous winter, the typical GIGLI style, open for me Opened a door to the colorful world.It happened that one time he was actually doing order in the store, and I greeted him respectfully and tremblingly, and said thank you.

Few of the group of male and female friends around me did not fall into the colorful vortex of GIGLI.In addition, it was really emotional back then, so you can play it seriously from head to toe.The rich color evokes a grown-up confidence.A fashion world view that breaks geographical boundaries. GIGLI himself knows the ins and outs of all these colors. He is reserved and shy by nature. He is actually a warm and hospitable tour guide. Once you get on this bus, the next stop will be heaven or hell. Romeo Gigli, who was born in a family of Italian booksellers, was in the business of out-of-print ancient books. When he was young, when he was flipping through those ancient tomes with gold-painted parchment, he unexpectedly revealed a different and colorful new world for him.After graduating from high school and studying architecture for two years, he couldn't wait to leave home and wander.Unlike ordinary family members who are greedy for pleasure, he set out on the road in the late 1960s, and even took India and the Middle East as his destination. The hardships on the road can be imagined.

That is to say, this ten-year-long global roaming is really a bit extravagant (sorry, it was Marco? Polo who almost fell to the ground when he returned to Venice?) What GIGLI found on the road is enough for him Enjoy the powerful colors that belong to other places and different places for several lifetimes.It's hard to tell whether it was he who took good control of these flowing colors in the days to come, or whether he was controlled by these magical colors under a spell, but what is certain is that these colors have astonishing energy, with a radius of hundreds of miles, people turn their backs on their backs.The frightened, the moved, the haunted, there are countless.

I'm afraid I have to quickly get out the GIGLI rust green pants that I haven't worn in nearly ten years to see if this long-lost love is still there. It is a bit paradoxical to recall how the once passionate love cooled down. India and the Middle East, where GIGLI traveled when he was young, naturally exudes alluring charm to me. Once you set foot here, you know that you will come back again and again in the future.That is to say, in these foreign countries, it is the first time to get along frankly and primitively with these colors that appear repeatedly in GIGLI clothing at close range.Then I really feel that no matter how deliberately performed by any master, its shock and appeal will not be as good as the original beauty.Perhaps I am still grateful for GIGLI's role as an enlightenment guide, but I have gradually kept a considerable distance from these gorgeous and elegant re-creations.Since I can’t unrealistically wear a tunic with traditional styles and fabrics that is really native to India or an Arabian hooded long coat on my daily road, of course I don’t have to be loyal to GIGLI’s grand Italian festival that looks like a festival every day Version exotic.The instant retreat of enthusiasm is unexpected, but only by knowing how to let go can we go further.

Because of the reorganization of various business structures, RomeoGigli's brand also changed hands in the 1990s.However, as a designer who has identified his own creative direction and style, it is not so easy to lose. In the autumn of 1999, GIGLI once again served as the artistic director of the RomeoGigli brand. In the following millennium, it regained its reputation and established an exhibition hall converted from a large old toy factory in via Fumagalli in Milan, which once again verified the long and long journey of creation. On the road, the fireworks are only bright for a while, and in the end it is endurance and tenacity that will be contested.

In recent years, RomeoGigli's new quarterly collections have not been seen in famous clothing stores in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Perhaps these consumers are greedy for new and forgetful, and fashion buyers are even more obsessed with it. All the coquettish names were thrown into the limbo.If you are interested, you should go to the flagship store in Milan, or browse the really well-made website. In all fairness, there are no surprises, but the style is still the same—— The colorful and fiery enthusiasm that once subsided is just around the corner, as if returning to the warm night outside the gate of viaSanNicolo in Florence in 1991. It was the first release of GIGLI's new work. Nearly two hundred young men and women wore the same colorful neutral clothes and relaxed and happily Walking barefoot on the gravel road around the mansion, and then riding a bicycle in front of everyone like water——

As the night deepens, the models are no longer models, and gradually re-integrate with the crowd. When you are in it, you will suddenly find that you and I are a part of the color, a part of the creation, and an individual from the past and the future. part of the collective memory.