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A selection of four unique and dazzling pieces from Marni's S/S 21 collection 'Marnifesto' will be sold at Christie's London until 23 June with the intention to benefit the Alliance of Artists Communities.

“This project really just started off with me in my falling-down house in Forest Hill having a Zoom call with the creative director of Marni,” says writer and drag performer Crystal Rasmussen. For Marni’s Spring/Summer 2021 show, Francesco Risso had teamed up with Telfar’s Babak Radboy to produce Marnifesto, an alternative to the catwalk fashion show that has now become a whole new way of working for the brand. The project sees Risso and Radboy step back from the creative process, handing over control to a group of artists working in different disciplines – and Rasmussen was includ...

Marnifesto was born from the Covid-19 pandemic, as an alternative solution to the catwalk show. Devised in 2020 by Francesco Risso, Marni’s creative director since October 2016, and artistic director Babak Radboy, who is best known for his groundbreaking work with Telfar, the project saw a community of 48 individuals, all creative, brought into Marni’s universe, where they took brand’s narrative into their own hands for its Spring/Summer 2021 collection. And, what started out as a one-time project, evolved into a whole new way of working – one which continues today in the latest ite...

Even if lockdowns are slowly lifting and we’re tentatively re-emerging into a blurred state of freedom, we’re not in Zoom-free territory yet. And even though some of the videos that designers were forced to make in place of live events over the last year have been virtual gems, the physical representation of fashion is still the non-negotiable light at the end of the tunnel. “It has been such a strong learning curve,” reflected a pensive Francesco Risso on a video call from his studio in Milan. “But now I need to go live, I need  il contatto. We’ve become creatively proficient in...