CaosOrdinato - Anything Works. A modern man's wardrobe. di Stefano Chiassai e Corinna Chiassai.

‘35ANNI’ DI RICERCA. QUESTO LIBRO È UN RACCONTO DEGLI ABITI CHE IN ‘35ANNI’ HO COLLEZIONATO O ANCHE SOLO IMMAGINATO.

SKU: Caosordinato

CAOSORDINATO - ANYTHING WORKS - a modern man’s wardrobe
by Stefano Chiassai and Corinna Chiassai.  Nuova Libra Editrice

‘35YEARS’ OF RESEARCH.

THIS BOOK IS A STORY OF GARMENTS THAT I COLLECTED OVER THE PAST ‘35YEARS’. VISITING A THOUSAND BOUTIQUES, HUNTING UNCOUNTABLE VINTAGE MARKETS AROUND THE WORLD, TAKING WITH ME ANYTHING THAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION. MY ‘HISTORICALARCHIVE’ HAS GROWN OUT OF CONTROL AND ‘DAYPERDAY’, ‘YEARPERYEAR’ I HAVE COLLECTED OVER 15.000 PIECES.

RESEARCH RESEARCH RESEARCH...OBVIOUSLY, JUST HUNTING THE MARKETS AND THE STORES IS NOT ENOUGH. ONE NEEDS TO FIND THE PERFECT CHEMISTRY THAT CONNECTS ONE PIECE WITH THE OTHER. YOU FIND THEM AND THEN YOU START SEEKING FOR AN INTERESTING DETAIL, A PARTICULAR FIT, A SURPRISING ACCESSORY OR A STRANGE MIX OF YARNS. SOMETHING QUITE SPECIFIC THAT IN MY EYES MAKES IT UNIQUE. IN THIS BOOK, YOU WILL FIND AN ECLECTIC MIX OF ‘UNUSUALOUTFITS’. IT’S A BIT LIKE MAKING A PUZZLE: YOU LOOK FOR AN OUTSTANDING PIECE, SEARCH FOR THE OTHERS THAT COULD COMPLEMENT IT AND SEE HOW YOU CAN FIT THEM AS A WHOLE TOGETHER.

‘CAOSORDINATO’ (‘ORGANIZEDCHAOS’) IS A PURSUIT FOR THE PERFECT CHEMISTRY TO COMBINE
CONTRASTING ELEMENTS TOGETHER, A COHESION OF HETEROGENEOUS PIECES THAT, STARTING FROM THE OLD, CAN CREATE A ‘NEWEXPRESSION’ OF MODERNITY ONLY ONCE COMBINED IN THE RIGHT WAY.

‘CAOSORDINATO’ IS A ‘VISIONARYDREAM’, A SPECIAL FORMULA TO CREATE A NEW CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGE BETWEEN NEW AND USED, TEXTURE AND DETAILS. LIKE MUSIC, THE STORY OF IMAGES IN THIS BOOK, EXPLAINS ITS UNIQUENESS. EXPERIMENTING, CONTAMINATING AND BLENDING TOGETHER PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE TO ENVISION A CONTEMPORARY ‘REFINEDELEGANCE’, AND DISCOVER THAT ‘CAOSORDINATO’ IS IN THE END JUST AN ‘E M O T I O N T O W A T C H’.

1+1=3 OR ‘CREATIVEXPLOSION’.

HAVING GROWN UP IN STEFANO CHIASSAI STUDIO AND IN ITS HISTORICAL ARCHIVE, WHO BETTER THAN CORINNA CHIASSAI TO WORK SIDE BY SIDE WITH STEFANO TO CREATE THIS BOOK? BOTH FATHER AND DAUGHTER HAD ALWAYS HAD A FEELING THAT WHEN THE TIME WOULD COME, THEY WOULD WORK TOGETHER WELL.

NOW, SUSPICIONS HAVE TURNED INTO CONFIRMATION: SOMETIMES ONE PLUS ONE REALLY IS THREE.

WITH CREATIVE MINDS THAT LOOK ALIKE AND ARE VERY DIFFERENT, WITH CHARACTERS THAT SEEM ALIKE AND ARE VERY DIFFERENT, STEFANO AND CORINNA COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER IN MANY ASPECTS.

THIS FIRST COLLABORATION OF TWO GENERATIONS OF ITALIAN FASHION DESIGNERS COULD HARDLY BE CLOSER TO THE ESSENCE OF THIS BOOK.