THE HYBRID ERA

Digital transitions and gender fluidity

MAY 2024 - SIXTH SENSE

Image © Amilcare Incalza

"Welcome to the hybrid era, the most recent of the metamorphoses and reincarnations of the Information Age"

Parag e Ayesha Khanna

What does technology have to do with gender fluidity? Apparently nothing. Digital, however, has undeniably allowed the proliferation of hybrid forms, straddling the physical and the virtual. This, on a semantic level, is as if it were the double of body and identity. The former is tangible, material, like physical reality, and the latter is intangible, but existing.

 

The virtual gives us the illusion of having the gift of ubiquity. You can be here. And, opening another window, be somewhere else. At the same time. Digital technology has challenged the idea of borders. Between public and private, between real and unreal, between physical and virtual, between nature and technology.

Digital has undermined the idea of borders Digital has undermined the idea of borders
Digital has undermined the idea of borders Digital has undermined the idea of borders

And the multiple and hybrid identity, also thanks to fashion, has, literally, encroached on her own bodies.

 

We try to wear Marsèll shoes and Cristiano Burani clothes and we immediately acquire a new identity. Quoting the philosopher Emanuele Coccia: “it is as if through fashion, our deepest psyche, the one that hides under the self and identities, finds a platform for play, freedom and infinite expression”.

Image © Amilcare Incalza
Image © Amilcare Incalza

Fresh, delicate daisies hug the tulle of the chest and They loosen the hips, like a promise of spring.

Image © Amilcare Incalza
Image © Amilcare Incalza

From revolution red to blue, passing through purple, The colors hybridize until they blend into each other on the black of the lips.

Fishnet stockings, like spiders' webs, are the material testimonies of multiple voices, of an increasingly prolific and speaking web.

Image © Amilcare Incalza
Image © Amilcare Incalza
Image © Amilcare Incalza
Image © Amilcare Incalza
BY Alessandra Busacca

Brand: Cristiano Burani Total Look

Shoes: Marsèll

Pink bag: Studio Tondini @studiotondini “Come Fly With Me!”

Photographer: Amilcare Incalza @amilcareincalza

Creative Director & Fashion Editor: Veronica Mazziotta @veronicamazziotta

Video: Alberto Galli @lligalberto

Stylist: Veronica Mazziotta @veronicamazziotta

Hair & MUA: Rodrigo de Souza @blend

Models: Alessandro Rumiz @whynotmodels Giosuè Ugo @monsterIsabella Marani @whynotmodels
Producer: Asia Sardi @themeravigliaagency