CLUBE DA ESQUINA COLLECTION
Design
Prints
Manufacture
Photography & Retouch
by Giulio Forgiarini
* 55 meters of types of polyester were used for this collections producing a total of 61 pieces;
*all fabrics used in this collections were donations by a producer that had no useful destination for them;
* all buttons were handmade recycling used plastics containers donated by friends;
* this collection had the intention to reduce textile waste reusing and recycling leftovers and scraps from the production;
* all its tags were handmade using scraps from the production;
*this collection goes against fast fashion logic, therefore there weren't any restockings or new pieces, only those the fabrics allowed;
Produced and Edited by Giulio Forgiarini
Styling by Giulio Forgiarini
Jewelry by Laura Lins Atelier
Art Direction by Giulio Forgiarini
Models Angel Zonzo, Daniel Rangel, Joana Castro, Matheus Ramalho & Paula Rosa
This is a collection about the state of Minas Gerais (Brazil), about its land, about its road, and even about its sun. It talks about the vast horizon filled with mountains as is life filled with possibilities. More so, it talks about being "mineiro" - the name of who is born in Minas Gerais - as were the members (writers and composers) of the "Clube da Esquina" album. Its about their friendship.
In 1972, this musical masterpiece made more than just poetically criticise the military dictatorship that was reprehending every persons free will of thought and act; this album presented the simplicity and most beautiful emotion and feeling that exists in friendship.
As a group of friends, got together in a corner, in a street in the middle of Belo Horizonte, to spend days playing with words and chords, without any reason, just for the simple factor that they loved making music with each other, a club was found, the corner's clube (clube da esquina in English).
This simple gathering of young lyricists, poets, guitar players, The Beatles influences, Brazilian popular music, the country's political climate filled with dicer to change the world, for life's freedom and the want for all its possibilities, lead by Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges ended up becoming one of the most original albums made in Brazil. "Clube da Esquina" wasn't just an album that grew from a friendship, it is a sonorous experience, filled with instrumentals mixing rock, hispanic music, MPB (Brazilian popular music) and pure poetry with so many meanings, as a view from a window can offer so many stories to tell.
It has two boys in the cover. Both sitting down in the dirty by the side of the road, looking at the photographer, as if him was me, as I imagine the boys were when the picture was took by one of the members in a road trip trough the interior of Minas Gerais. But I guess I really wanted to talk about the back cover. It has a yellow back cover. A yellow color, with black letters announcing the title and a small picture of them
My favorite song used to be one that talks about a window, its stories, surprises and possibilites and the singer says he sees life goes by from it, and yet no one warned him it was happening. When I was little I had no idea the profound meaning this verses had, all I know was that this song was so beautiful and it seemed to match perfectly with the view I saw through my dad's car window during our many trips through Minas Gerais; and every time we got on the road again all I could do was ask for the song with the window from the álbum with the yellow cover.