MINIMALISM IN COLORS: ARISTIDE FALL - WINTER 2017

“Life is very simple, but we insist on making it complicated”. So said the Chinese philosopher Confucius. This principle, over the centuries, has led the society to divide and follow two paths: the one committed to maximizing every aspect of its existence, and that it instead has learned to reduce their path to what is actually needed: to live, breathe, eat , and more. From the latter, especially since the early ‘900, were inspired in some sense even some artistic currents such as rationalism, Bauhaus, Arte Povera, and, more generally, minimalism. And it is this last school, in the person of one of its most important members, namely the American artist Ellsworth Kelly, to have inspired Aristide‘s collection of gloves for next winter.

However, to conceive of a pure and straightforward world does not mean making it boring. Indeed, thanks to its guessed structure, you can mold it with striking colors and unusual nuances that enrich the contents as well as the values. Like the paintings by Kelly – who was also a sculptor and illustrator – and the accessories offered by the brand made in France.

Bertrand Mahé, creative director and founder of this creative reality since 2010, continues his stylistic research using the art world then, and following a path, an approach for this new collection that recalls the very structure of the triptych: the first element is in fact constituted by the simplicity of the gloves lines in which they are banned tinsel and frivolities, the second is therefore the functionality which, instead of falling into the boredom, helps to create a style, the only one of Aristide. This draft is then made three-dimensional, vivid, by bright colors, without rules, and the leather with which the glove is made.

“Go ahead, put your head inside. Take a look around! “. So Kelly urged the journalist Rachel Coock in an interview with The Guardian on 8 November 2015, just a month before he died. And these gloves are just the result of a courageous pursuit of a creative, Mahé, which does not arise in the trial limits to knowledge. A tribute to the art that makes art itself.

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ph: press office