Last December, Italian fashion house Bottega Veneta announced British designer Louise Trotter as the brand’s new creative director. Her first collection debuted at Milan Fashion Week in late September, one of many new designers, launching the collection for the spring and summer season.
Trotter’s performance was held at Fabbrica Orobia, the former zinc factory in Milan. The show’s soundtrack was written by Steve McQueen, who is often not related to the high fashion world. As per your request, McQueen is known as a Turner Award 1999 artist for video work, a prestige award at the Tate Museum, or an Oscar-winning film director 12 years of slavewhich took the best photos in 2014.
McQueen’s contribution to the performance soundtrack pairing, the record of David Bowie and Nina Simone of the song “Wind Is the Wind,” written in 1957 and has been well-known for many artists over the years, including Cat Dynamics, Cat Dynamics, Esperanza Spalding and Barbra Streisand. McQueen’s Voice Title –’66 – ’76– Recorded versions of Simone and Bowie for several years.
“I want to boost people’s emotions and make them more sensitive to clothes,” McQueen told Bottege Veneta. “When I’ve been to fashion shows, I always thought it was a contemporary opera avatar, like I’ve experienced in the past. It’s not old-fashioned, not dusty. Actually, it’s cutting-edge.”
Given McQueen’s recent work in Art World, creating sounds is not that unexpected. Last spring, his installation on DIA: Beacon, bassdoes not contain any video components at all; instead, 60 light boxes were hung from the ceiling, and five musicians recorded nearly 3 hours of music.
McQueen attended the show with his daughter Alex. Both wore the brand’s trademark leather episode: McQueen’s olive green trench coat and daughter’s black V-neck dress.
