Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Jeremy Scott's ode to Federico Fellini at Moschino


Jeremy Scott is the magic-making, imagination-igniting, fun-fuelling, fantasy-fulfilling fashion king of any and every show schedule. Having long dreamt about reimagining the work of one of his heroes, the great Italian film director Federico Fellini, the small town Kansas-born creative force took his Moschino men’s fall and women’s pre-fall 19 collections on the road to Rome.

Inside the historic Cinecittà studios -- a sprawling film studio known as ‘The Dream Factory’ which has shot more than 3000 films -- Jeremy Scott blew the dust off a Baths of Caracalla set as he cut, pasted and manipulated characters from Fellini’s archive. “It’s Fellini,” Jeremy excitedly explained backstage post-show after being congratulated by Fellini muse Sandra Milo. “It’s all the things I love about him mixed together. There are exaggerations, off-duty showgirls, Casanovas, Centurions. It’s surreal, it’s otherworldly.” It’s Jeremy Scott and it’s Moschino.”

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