At the end of last century, when I began to travel backpacking around the world, I discovered the great and beautiful landscapes that surrounded me, as well as its people and their cultures. I learned to see the beauty, that beauty that captivates us in the small details of everything that surrounded me.
At the same time I developed the techniques of composite materials, since with them I wanted to make sleds with which to cross Greenland (this is a long story …). Over the years I opted for carbon fiber, a material harder than steel and much lighter than aluminum, with which I was performing all kinds of parts at an industrial level. I was missing something…
I thought that incredible material could be used, needed, needed and wanted to use, for more than just pieces for the industry. So I began to model, by hand, an infinite number of tests and developed my own techniques until I got my first sculpture in a single layer of carbon fiber. I had endowed a part of my soul with that sculpture and that made my spirit smile. Shortly after I discovered the Urushi lacquer, the best lacquer in the world, and then my inner self began to vibrate like never before, I fell in love. I fell in love with the incredible combination of the use of a material as technologically advanced as carbon with the Urushi lacquer, with its tradition, its extremely high quality, its impeccable finish and its thousands of years old, that great mixture of the old and the modern. And so it all began… So I began to create sculptures and jewels with a part of my soul.
That was not enough for me… That incredible material still had much more to offer, much more beauty to show the world, much more glamour. So why not? Well, basically because no one had ever done anything like what I was trying to do before. I immersed myself again in a long stage of R&D and finally united the best of two worlds, the perfect symbiosis. I developed the way to use this incredible fabric for the manufacture of clothing. Incredibly soft and breathable garments but with the resistance and hypnotic aesthetics of carbon fiber. Over time I also began to create it with basalt fiber. From volcanic rock I was able to make amazing clothes.
