www.vincenzospinosa.co.uk Sicilian born Vincenzo Spinosa studied fashion design at Milan’s IED and moved to London in 2010.
For about thirty years, Spinosa’s life journey has exposed him to many contrasts, from sunny country side of his hometown of Agrigento to rainy financial centres of The City; and it wasn’t until 2013 that the designer became able to shape all of this into contemporary wearable fashion pieces. Anyone who’s moved from his or her own village to a larger city can probably relate to the brutal shock, f
ear and loneliness that the designer has gone through in his early fashion years. It is his anchored love for fashion and the true friends he made along the way that kept him going through the bad days and that are now represented in his logo. The brand’s heart-shaped logo also happens to be a perfect reflection of how Vincenzo works: creating structure from chaos. From Malaysia to California the result speaks for itself to customers. Vincenzo Spinosa has always been fascinated by artists and painters post WWII, especially the Surrealists and Abstract Expressionists. Moving to London strengthened his curiosity for street art. But the designer feels the need to produce work with dimension, pieces with depth. This is where his natural tendency towards rational structure coupled with an aesthetically Italian education make him use flat plain black or white fabrics as a canvas or a wall. On there, in his own way, he draws, moulds and express himself through the garment: colourful hair, matte leather, icy metal embellishments and many more urban materials reflecting his East London lifestyle of the past years. Jackson Po***ck said « When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing »; Vincenzo gathers his textured garments from unusual sources, he then sketches , throws fabric around his atelier and sews. To the external observer this may look like a mess, as if not unlike Po***ck, he wasn’t aware of what he was doing. But when the work is done, when he has cut off all the little threads, removed the sewing marks and takes a step back, both the observer and the designer can contemplate the outcome of a naturally structured mind.
