For the show, the Vitelli team stretched their artisanal and artistic muscles, adding a new hybrid fabric to their repertoire. Made by pouring algae jelly over haphazardly assembled yarns, a process that sounds slightly Pollockian, the organic textile looks rather like a jellyfish, translucent and smooth. It was cut into a simple boxy tank top worn with straight-legged pants in technicolor Doomboh. Don’t expect fashion pyrotechnics, though; shapes are supple, balanced, and wearable. Through a variety of knitted techniques, they achieve visually impactful textures; their chromatic sense is also quite an asset. The Vitelli aesthetic is clearly influenced by a fascination for the overland route from Istanbul, Turkey, through Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, and India that was traveled by hippies until the late ’70s, but Simionato said that the label’s look is also influenced by the Italian sense of balanced elegance and by an appreciation for the well-made. “The masters I’m looking up to are actually Giorgio Armani, Missoni, Romeo Gigli.” Spiritual wanderers they certainly were not.
On Friday morning, Democrats in the House passed the Women’s Health Protection Act,” an attempt by Democrats in Congress to codify Roe as more than constitutional precedent. Democrats have a tiny, unlikely window to try and save women’s reproductive freedom before December 1, when the Supreme Court, now dominated by conservative justices, hears Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Missisipi abortion ban case that challegs the right to abortion established by Roe. As the bill’s writer, Senator Richard Blumenthal put it to me: “The WHPA offers the clearest and best path forward to protecting Roe through congressional action. Any lawmaker who believes that access to abortion is a fundamental right should support this legislation.”
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