@piangoonline

Fashion Design, Year 3

24 years old

Milan, Italy

How has your everyday-life changed? What do you do to fulfill your day?

My life has completely changed: I went straight from always running through Milan, to stay always closed inside of a two-room apartment that faces Piazza Buozzi. I wake up with the first ray of lights, alarms are useless; I sunbathe until 11 am, looking down who goes out and wondering why they do that; in the meantime, the wind through the trees makes me think about my life and I choose what I would need to feel good in the next hours. What can I do today? Will I spend my day scrolling through e-stores? Will I keep reading Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo? Will I exercise my chakras doing some yoga? Or I will focus on my school projects? I don't know. What I do know is that in times like this we can have fun even with a vase.

Your work is built on creativity. While we’re all in quarantine, what is your solution to keep on being creative? Where do you find your inspiration in this moment?

Inspiration has stayed the same: we are young, we are living, meeting people, we get inspired and we learn through social media since we are teenagers. Instagram and TikTok are my first sources of inspiration, but I am also looking through online magazines and I'm reading more articles than I ever did. I re-discovered books, all of those book I bought just because I liked their aesthetic, and now I am reading them, for real! I felt the need to do much more things: things that I didn't have to do before, some whims, but I found out that they free my mind from pressure and they help me to have new ideas, thoughts and fantasies that I usually condemn. There is not a right solution, it depends on who you are and what you are feeling, but if you are able to cancel yourself and start from zero you realize what you really need. It is up to us. My classmates and friends are also my moral supporters and I have to say to them: thank you.

What is your biggest fear right now?

To stop fighting.

What will you do once all of this is over?

I think about it everyday: what happens next? In this future we will all touch each other less, but will we feel more close on the inside? Does the quarantine push us to be more supportive and stop looking only to ourselves? I have to admit that my thought is already melancholic. I will miss kissing at parties, going to the flea market, entering a crowded room and chatting with people I don't want to chat with. Relationships are going to me always more and more controlled, less free, less spontaneous, as it happened with AIDS, with terroristic attacks, after every trauma that taught us to be less confident in who we have around.