@elenamottola

Fashion designer and Stylist

Paris, France

How are you living the quarantine: fears and dreams?

I'm really lucky, because I'm staying a little village in between the sea and the country, a really calm and soothing atmosphere. My feeling is that we finally have what we always desired, time for ourselves, but it is poisoned by the nature of this "blessing", a deadly international pandemic, hence the difficulty to truly enjoy all that free time.

FEAR: Having all this time on my hands is also my fear during this confinement, am I going to be bored without work? What am i going to do tomorrow? Next week? How long will it last? What is the next phase going to be? Which level of confinement are we going to reach? And more importantly what am I to accomplish next? No answers, everything is at a standstill.

DREAMS: I dream while watching movies, about the past, with Matrimonio all'italiana, about being a dancer with Mr Gaga, and about dreaming with The Grand Budapest Hotel. All these movies, books and paintings make me dream and allow me to escape from reality, from this terrible reality. I guess art takes all its sense during crisis times.

What is your soundtrack?

On Spotify: Italian Classics (50 beautiful songs from the Past). It give me so much energy, and positivity and calm.