production of an immersive show, motion laboratory
DANTE 3.7
couture collection of clothing, fabrics and accessories
Dante Alighieri
ANDREY VANKOV
ANASTASIA vanKOFF
story
colour
matter
the story leads you from light to color, from color it will return you to light
a woven image of a great story will reveal a new layer in you
created based on illustrations for Dante's "Divine Comedy," by the brilliant artist, Andrey Vankov.
In his works, the artist explores the fluctuations of COLOR and SPACE.
colletction DANTE 3.7-
this is the COLOR that is embedded in FABRics,
сканирование иллюстраций на МФУ"Brother dcp -7057r". Казначейская 3, Петербург, осень 2017 года.
РАВЕННА. БЛОК и ДАНТЕ.
it was in Ravenna, in 2019, that I first had a conscious thought about Dante Aleggieri's "Divine Comedy."
And its illustrations.
After that trip, I began sketching clothing designs with Dante's signature...
STory
The journey from the day I first saw the illustrations to Dante (20 years after they were created, in 1997) to the day of the show was exactly 5 years long.
thanks to a long journey in IT and fashion, and 30 years of cultivating my perception through my father's work, in 2022 I came to the point where I can expand the plane of those very COLORS and LIGHTs, which in Dante's illustrations achieved "the maximum possible impact on human perception," into the space of real 3D forms—fabrics, clothing.