Matilde Cerruti Quara x Paolo Carzana fall winter 2023

Matilde Cerruti Quara x Paolo Carzana presents the fall winter 2023 collection with a libretto.

I want to be hope for you.

a desert landscape, a mindscape, a soundscape
a backdrop where music falls
escaping rules, heart-felt vibrations rustling
the uidity of water, the long-lost Welsh river,
electric current through our bones, our spine, our structure, unxed owing not xing, arming, time for time in time,

a few minutes, to exist in sheer glory, divine

I know how the story goes: all the old souls shall eventually be saved from Purgatory–

I want to be hope for you here & now

when the gates of Hell close behind you and Heaven chimes away, ciao ciao Paradiso

I want us to become collective harmony of sound

I want to be hope for you when you are proud

when you are proud & loud when pride elevates you to paradise when numbness ceases to leave place to light

I want to be hope for you

when you fight hypocrisy
and you resist you resist and you –

You trade Wrath for yet another day of Temperance and choose Kindness over Envy patiently stroking your restless Lust

I want to be hope for you

when you unbind yourself
when you untie your bow
when you don’t bow to compromise when you become unbound bountiful desire of freedom rainbow liberation–

I want to be hope for you

when you dream

and imagine what peace might feel like

I want to be hope for you
when we are dancing in the flames

burning rose petals and mugwort
cleansing our spirits from the tongues of disgrace

evanescent, immortal combustion

I want to be hope for you when you resist the mirror

when you xate on ‘errors’
when you get mad, madder, marigold

& when you nally transcend it all jumping throughout the looking glass

I want to be hope for you when you drink the sacred red wine the glowing goblet of vanity distilled

Iwanttobehopeforyouifyougetdrunkonit
I want to be hope for you when we destroy the pyramid

I want to be hope for you
when you judge me for what you think I am

I want to be hope for you sinuous shining sensual hope

when the sun sets and plunges hiding in the Haggerston canal

and you say it’s a wonderful night to survive

I want to be hope for you
if you are other than anyone else

when you become hero
of the queer Renaissance
when you sin and when you sing and when you sob and when they try to rob me of my Pride
I still want to be hope for you; and them too

I want to be hope for you

I want to be your angel

I want to be your bride
silky shining shadow of bamboo silk

I want to be your fresh start
the end that is but a beginning spinning
free
in the intergalactic intimacy firmament

I want to be hope for you
I want to be hope for you
I want to be hope for you

I want to be hope, I want to be, for we are made of endless energy and whatever otherness is, that is, a gift
it carried us all here, lonely children full of dreams, trying to t within the immensity
and to commit to hope these days is as radical as to commit to life to gamble with all the gods and devils in spite
of what we hear & see

I want to be a queer symphony

Aren’t we all just trying to feel something again?

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