A collaboration to redefine the vocabulary of fashion.
There are companies that produce textiles. Others imagine them.
In the heart of Tuscany, Ricciarini doesn’t simply construct matter — it interprets it. Each collection is a textile constellation, a visual lexicon that speaks of aesthetics, function, and vision. Founded in 1974, the company explores fabric as a form of thought. Structure, light, the reaction of the fiber to movement — everything becomes narrative. In a present that devours everything in haste, Ricciarini works with an inner rhythm: radical, precise, deeply human.
Within this same horizon lies TheCube Archive, founded by Stefano Chiassai, Corinna Chiassai, Alessandra Dall’Anese, and Marius Hordijk. Born as a research tool, it is now one of the most sophisticated fashion archives in Europe. But The Cube doesn’t merely preserve — it activates. It is a hybrid laboratory where vintage becomes a language to be rewritten.
From the encounter between these two realities comes a collaboration that is not a stylistic exercise, but an act of imagination. A living installation — on view from June 30 to July 11 in the Ricciarini showroom — where fabric becomes body, vision, and conceptual space. At its center, two anthropomorphic figures wear creations made entirely from Ricciarini textiles: sartorial sculptures that question the very identity of the garment. The past is not cited — the future is built.
Curated by Stefano Chiassai, the project frames fashion as conceptual architecture, as an art form that crosses languages. Vintage is no longer nostalgia, but a creative detonator. The result is a radical study of form, where fabric becomes a critical surface.
This collaboration also marks a new role for Ricciarini: no longer just a textile producer, but an ambassador of vision. Fabric once again becomes origin, the first gesture, the core of design thinking.
