As a movie buff, Walter Chiapponi entrusted Lorenzo Zurzolo, the Italian choreographer, to Netflix Girl fame will star in the video from the Tod’s Fall collection, digitally presented today. The young actor also had the target in the lookbook, which was shot in Villa Ronchi, designed in the 1930s by Italian architect Giuseppe De Finetti, set in the misty and quiet landscape of the Lombard region of northern Italy.
In the short film, titled #sevenT (“Seven as the days of the week, T for Tod, but also for Time,” Chiapponi explained), the actor retires to the solitude of the village to prepare a role. “Movies are one of my biggest passions,” Chiapponi said. “I wanted a strong and confident personality to express what I meant. And it seemed appropriate for the moment we live to work around the idea of loneliness, but thought of as an opportunity for introspection and self-discovery.
The designer believes in the restorative beauty of nature and in a cultivated lifestyle that embraces its healing power, concepts that served as a kind of backbone of the collection. With classic outdoor pieces, it was infused with a touch of rural knight for comfort and practicality. Sensuality and a touch of romance were also introduced; Chiapponi played with tactile, flexible, and soft fabrications: cashiers, tweeds, corduroy, velvet, and knitted textures. The lightly padded hunting and field vests remained thin and relaxed. The tailor maintained an elegant appeal while being treated with casual ease. Everything was subtly energized by a youthful atmosphere of the 70s.
What Chiapponi brings to Tod’s is a compelling renewal of Italian casual troops, seen through a cultivated and slightly emotional modern filter: “I don’t like anything too designed, or too cold, or too sharp,” he said. “I want something soulful, a little eccentricand free. “