The multidisciplinary studio Older, formed by Letizia Caramia, Tuscan born in 1989, and Morten Thuesen, Danish born in 1988, opens his first showroom-shop-gallery in Milan on Monday 5 December, in the Nolo area, and will do so with the political exhibition The energy crisis hoodies.
"We bought pallets of used sweatshirts from wholesalers, we disassembled, reassembled and reinvented them, creating something new, sewing patches with messages on them that express our point of view on the dominant themes at the moment", says the creative duo.
"Through this upcycling project we have our say on the new Italian government, on the energy crisis, on the gender issue, on the war in Ukraine, on the protests in Iran, on capitalism".
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"With these reinvented and recovered sweatshirts we want to express our opinions on the current situation and spread concrete messages, written partly in Italian to be more direct".
Among the phrases sewn on the sweatshirts, there are: 'Say her name di lei! Mahsa Amini' and ' Woman life freedom', to remember the 22-year-old Iranian girl killed by the morality police because she did not wear her veil correctly; 'Slava Ukraïni!', i.e. glory to Ukraine, to show solidarity with those who are fighting against the Russians for freedom; 'Freddo boia' and 'Svalutation' on the energy and economic crisis; 'Parent 1', 'Government of crisis', 'Rave of debutantes', 'Vote' to contest Italian internal politics.
"Sweatshirts are all different from each other, but they are united by our will to rebel, by the urgency to act and encourage others to do something to bring about change", underline Letizia Caramia and Morten Thuesen.
