Pasta is one of the pillars of Italy's truest, most traditional cuisine. But slowly, over the years, this culinary gem has also found its place as a muse for fashion.
Accessories
Appetizing accessories
The Sicilian artist Alessandro Enriquez drew inspiration from the shape of fusilli to decorate armchairs and bags, evoking the flavours and scents that clothing lines are dedicated to. Even earlier, pasta had drawn the interest of Giulietto Giugiaro and appeared in exhibitions at famous museums.
The project paired fashion, food and design to create five bag designs and an armchair patterned with food graphics, followed by a mesh-and-leather collection with armchairs inlaid with various pasta shapes.
Jewelry
Good and Precious pasta
Our beloved pasta even found a place among the shelves of jewellery, thanks to the well-known house STROILI. The result was the Pasta Couture Collection, a series of 4 bracelets with a gastronomic theme, designed for the Milan Expo 2015, in recycled silver 925, satin-finished by hand and set with cubic zirconia. These precious gourmet pieces were the protagonists of a charity auction supporting a small Onlus, an Italian nonprofit.
Fashion
Always with you
As we've already seen, pasta has become synonymous with clothing too — and it's no accident that big fashion houses like Dolce&Gabbana drew inspiration for their Spring/Summer 2017 line: clothes that tell a long, passionate Italian history through typical gastronomic elements impossible not to draw on when it comes to Italian tradition; Spaghetti, Farfalle, Conchiglie, fusilli and orecchiette parade together with light, ephemeral clothing frames, or swing free in the air as elegant pendants.
Home
Pasta at home!
Pasta becomes furniture too! Chairs shaped like tortellini, sofas that recall rigatoni, calendars with reproductions of giant spaghetti — these are just some of the creations of two great designers, Francesco Barbi and Guido rubbing strake. You can't give up the chance to have a comfortable space that also looks "tasty" and "Italian"!
But remember: the best pasta is the one we eat! And Naturally... Bottega Torciano’s.
