Avant Toi presents the capsule collection inspired by the Brazilian martial dance

Avant Toi has collaborated with Araike Severino Da Silva, a young Italo-Brazilian artist, photographer and Capoeira teacher on a capsule collection. Each garment is like a participant in a roda de Capoeira, in which personalities encounter and collide, participating in the pleasure of sharing. Where rules are the basis on which to build your own game, involving others.

The theme is a series of faces which depict different expressions and moods: complex studies of the human being, realized with the hand-painted technique of single-stroke drawing. Masterpieces of the ability to examine the depths of human emotions, summarizing them in an apparent confusion which is also a comprehensive picture that always remains true to itself.

These drawings have been digitalized and printed on the snow white of cotton jersey t-shirts and on fleece sweaters and pants fused with knitted fabrics through needle-punching. All the portrayed faces have also been combined in one print on candid garments in stretch silk; jacket, pants, shorts and t-shirt, and on the fresh t-shirt dress in cotton jersey; a texture that reveals itself unexpectedly light even while maintaining its suggestive emotionality thanks to its soft touch.

Araike also offers a variation on the theme, a portrait made with a thick brush for a three-dimensional effect on cotton jersey tank tops and t-shirts. The colours of the collection are are absolute: black and white.