“Ilos”
Casa Preti’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, Ilos, is born from a meditation on union — on the delicate, almost paradoxical connection between individuality and togetherness. The title itself, “Ilos” — the word “soli” (alone) written backwards — becomes a manifesto for inversion, a poetic and political act that transforms solitude into solidarity.
For designer Mattia Piazza, the collection is not merely fashion but a collective reflection. Drawing on surrealist and Dadaist playfulness, language becomes both structure and disruption — a way to reimagine relationships between bodies, garments, and meaning. The show emerged as a shared experience rather than a spectacle, dissolving the boundary between the creator and the collective.
Inspired by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo’s iconic painting Il quarto stato, which portrayed workers marching toward emancipation, Casa Preti reinterprets the image for the present day — proposing a new “fourth state” rendered in silk and technical fabrics. Each look carries both tension and tenderness: contradictions woven into proposition. The garments — minimalist, flowing, and purposeful — reject fashion’s transience in favor of durability, ethics, and meaning.
The house’s collaboration with Claire Fontaine, the feminist collective artist known for her neo-conceptual work, deepened this dialogue. Together, they presented a pocket-work bag, part object and part extension of the body, as well as a participatory performance for the collective writing of the Ilos Manifesto. The result was a space charged with energy and empathy, where fashion became a living act of resistance and communion.
In Ilos, the body is not adorned — it is acknowledged, supported, and embraced. Layers of silk, structured cotton, and soft technical fabrics shift between workwear precision and spiritual ease. These are not luxury goods, but thoughtful investments in what Casa Preti calls “durable, useful, and ethical objects.”
Through this collection, Mattia Piazza continues his exploration of “good equals beautiful” — the brand’s founding principle. With garments crafted locally in Sicily, using Italian fabrics and time-honored tailoring techniques, Casa Preti embodies a philosophy where slowness, care, and courtesy define modern luxury.
Ilos stands as a collective gesture — a reminder that identity, like beauty, is never solitary. It exists only when shared.
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