Moda Povera VI: les vêtements des autres – Milan

Conceived and produced especially for the spaces of Triennale Milano, Moda Povera VI: les vêtements des autres – Milan is an unprecedented performance commissioned by the Nomadic Nights – the live program of the Fondation Cartier, based on a protocol that is as simple as it is fragile. Each visitor is invited, if they wish, to lend for a moment a piece of clothing they hold dear. A cherished shirt, a jacket from a loved one, a dress, a pair of trousers from the memory of a parent, a coat from a friend who is precious to them: they are asked to entrust a garment chosen for the memory and affection it embodies in the eyes of the lender. Ten models, chosen for the heritage dimension of the living fashion they embody, are given the task of wearing these relics of the ordinary or the exceptional from the past. Carrying rather than wearing, presenting rather than putting on, animating rather than dressing. Herein lies the challenge of the performance: to restore to each and every one of us an intimate part of our relationship with clothing, without proclaiming it. It is also the art of gesture and movement that the ten models involved possess. Clothes for use or for work, every day, damaged, banal or ordinary, fashion clothes or ceremonial clothes, exceptional clothes, extinguished clothes, all these "vêtements des autres" without distinction parade by after Olivier Saillard and his studio have pre-empted them with a gesture.