FEDERICO CINA’s Colori del Nulla collection is a reflection on moments of transition and change. After exploring places of origin and dwelling on childhood and family, Federico and his team wondered how to give shape and color to the instant when in life something changes, evolves. This encounter with the world is a finding oneself different, a making one’s way through an indistinct fog bank and leaving behind what is no longer needed, abandoning it in that blur with undefined contours. In this collection, Federico describes a moment of life’s fragility and tries to identify the colors that are part of it and form its foundation, the zero point: the colors of nothingness. The essence is sought through the cleanliness of the forms, characterized by clean cut and a sartorial coldness. The lines are straight and precise, and silhouettes line the still sharp cuts. A renewed geometric rigor outlines the silhouettes.

Made in collaboration with Manteco, jackets and coats become the iron structure of a body that desires to undress and dress only in essentiality. The choice of fabrics also underscores the attention to sustainability and recycling of materials that both companies pursue. 

The Colors of Nothing collection embraces evolution, the moment when one accepts and makes change one’s own. One comes to the other side and find oneself strengthened by that very vulnerability. Skeleton and structure represent building oneself up from within, becoming the backbone of ourselves.

“What color can distinguish the moment when something changes? What color could that undefined fog ever be? Could it be gray, like the winter it belongs to? Could it be dark like the night and the fields it shrouds? Could it be transparent just like those many layers of cold sheerness that overlay into an indistinct dust? Federico has posed himself these questions, reflecting on the moment when, at a certain point in life, something inevitable happens: we face the world, reality, things for what they are. In that moment, in the confrontation with the cold, far away from the bliss of unawareness, something definitive happens. A change, a deviation. We grow, and we find ourselves different. We decide to abandon what is no longer needed, perhaps leaving it behind in that very same fog.”