The art of Kintsugi in the SS 2018 collection by Gretel Zanotti

The art of embracing traumas, not to hide with shame but to exalt them with pride and joy, is the delicate symbolic lesson suggested by the ancient Japanese art of "Kintsugi", the source of inspiration of Gretel Zanotti's SS 2018 collection.

The feminine body, metaphorically compared to a precious vase, thanks its fractures and breaks given by past experiences, enriching it, exalting its value and allowing it to reborn in a perfect form.

Gretel is aware of a natural and sincere inner beauty, buried in every woman, with a disruptive desire to express itself, flourishing precisely through those fissures as in a work by artist Jean-Michel Bihorel. 

A crushed body can then reborn more beautiful than before, adorning its wounds as medals won on the battlefield of life and what emerges is pure beauty, resilience, rebirth and charisma.

The collection unveils a Gretel Z. woman, aware of her own beauty, who shows off her traumas and her fragility, which have marked her growth path and caused her regeneration and purification. 

Kinsugi patterns, hand-painted by the designer, reproducing cracks filled with gold and silver, adorn the dresses. Female bodies shape motifs boast fissures from which marine floral themes like anemones and seaweed, linked to the water element as source of life, blossom and are applied by hand on the fabric.

A collection featuring clean lines and cuts, characteristic of the Gretel Zanotti style, dresses a woman at 360 degrees and for all 24 hours of the day,  dynamic, confident and determined so she introduces a range of clothes from pyjamas, to business tailleurs and evening dresses.