Let’s dance in style, let’s dance for a while
Heaven can wait, we’re only watching the skies
Fall - Winter 2020-21
TOO YOUNG TO
DIE OLD
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Too Young To Die Old is more than a collection: it is a way of feeling, of living, of dying young. It has nothing to do with age, but with an inner vibration—with a passionate, inclusive, experimental spirit that remains attentive to time and to stories charged with emotion. That vital intensity sustains a personal certainty: even if I die at a hundred, I will still die young.
This collection reflects on the electrifying fervour of youth-driven generational movements. It is a knowing nod to their emotional energy, to their restless way of inhabiting life. Generation X—my own—intersects here with Millennials, Gen Z and iGen, crossing paths as symbolic bodies of a present that is as turbulent as it is exhilarating.
Questions of gender and sexuality—ever more fluid, less normative—have seen their boundaries dissolve through the struggles of the lgbtiq+ community. Within this context, adolescence emerges as a decisive stage in the construction of emotional landscapes: an existential, hypnotic, volatile time, in which hyper-articulated, extravagant, analytical young people confront—often lightly, as a form of self-protection—the wounds of a life they have not yet learned how to navigate.
That protective lightness, which wears thin over time, coexists with moments of sadness and melancholy intrinsic to adolescent emotionality. It is a territory that has long fascinated me. For years I have explored cultural margins, subcultures, and spaces of youthful subversion. This collection is no exception; it once again places these bodies and identities at the centre.
Too Young To Die Old evokes the intoxicating vitality of human relationships and the raw intensity of adolescent longing. It begins in darkness—black and white punctuated by stains, a metaphor for anxiety, confusion, and insecurity—and evolves into vibrancy, where colour and texture embody moments of light, freedom, and the desire for a future happiness.
Graphic and unapologetic, the collection also allows for moments of striking stillness. A dreamlike drama with a modulated narrative, advancing and retreating in the same way emotional and physical growth unfolds. Within it live ignited thoughts and emotions, always rendered with an electric, living sophistication.
Too Young To Die Old is more than a collection: it is a way of feeling, of living, of dying young. It has nothing to do with age, but with an inner vibration—with a passionate, inclusive, experimental spirit that remains attentive to time and to stories charged with emotion. That vital intensity sustains a personal certainty: even if I die at a hundred, I will still die young.
This collection reflects on the electrifying fervour of youth-driven generational movements. It is a knowing nod to their emotional energy, to their restless way of inhabiting life. Generation X—my own—intersects here with Millennials, Gen Z and iGen, crossing paths as symbolic bodies of a present that is as turbulent as it is exhilarating.
Questions of gender and sexuality—ever more fluid, less normative—have seen their boundaries dissolve through the struggles of the lgbtiq+ community. Within this context, adolescence emerges as a decisive stage in the construction of emotional landscapes: an existential, hypnotic, volatile time, in which hyper-articulated, extravagant, analytical young people confront—often lightly, as a form of self-protection—the wounds of a life they have not yet learned how to navigate.
That protective lightness, which wears thin over time, coexists with moments of sadness and melancholy intrinsic to adolescent emotionality. It is a territory that has long fascinated me. For years I have explored cultural margins, subcultures, and spaces of youthful subversion. This collection is no exception; it once again places these bodies and identities at the centre.
Too Young To Die Old evokes the intoxicating vitality of human relationships and the raw intensity of adolescent longing. It begins in darkness—black and white punctuated by stains, a metaphor for anxiety, confusion, and insecurity—and evolves into vibrancy, where colour and texture embody moments of light, freedom, and the desire for a future happiness.
Graphic and unapologetic, the collection also allows for moments of striking stillness. A dreamlike drama with a modulated narrative, advancing and retreating in the same way emotional and physical growth unfolds. Within it live ignited thoughts and emotions, always rendered with an electric, living sophistication.
© Kristen Wicce
