Credit: Versace
That the time of quiet luxury is over has been clearly announced by the fashion shows that have just ended, during which brands have returned to experimenting with shapes and materials, creating clothes and accessories of great visual impact and craftsmanship. In this return to maximalism, metal mesh, used for both clothes and accessories by brands such as Versace and Stella McCartney, could not be missing.
It is a material that has the ability to adapt to so many processes, and that can be customised in colour with so many nuances, as Modimex, a Tuscan fashion accessories manufacturer that has been producing wire mesh for fashion for 50 years, explains.
In the case of Versace, in fact, the clothes are made with three different types of mesh assembled together to give this almost mimetic effect to the clothes and bags. These are a steel mesh with a wider mesh, a metal mesh in galvanised brass in a colour somewhere between gunmetal and steel, and a cristal mesh also in brass, also galvanised (strictly before the crystals are applied) to obtain the desired nuance.
Three nets, therefore, that need exquisite manual workmanship to be able to coexist in the same object in a fluid and uniform manner: the rings must in fact be opened one by one and then chained together, and then closed again.
