entitled “protect yourself as a treasure” the ss10 collection by dino alves conveys the idea of protection : physical and emotional, material and spiritual … the outset are the realities every one build and from which we cannot get away … therefore, we must know how to protect ourselves before they turn against us …
the ideas are those self-esteem or the lack of it, while a comparison to jewelery and great treasures is established … the characters whose world included jewelery, the owners of great empires, goddesses, queens and kings are invoked … by association also all those that our imaginary wishes to find …
the silhouette, the colour and the materials create pictures which remind us of jewelery protected in boxes and drawers, precious objects kept in compartments, closed behind doors, bodies wrapped or shrouded in cloths, vulnerable beings preserved in capsules – as if the happiness of those beings asked for the same protection gemstones have …
gold, zippers, baggy pants, ‘key’ print, a ‘chain’ necklace made out of black leather links and great ‘chained’ luggage spinners …
