emanuele coccia

Chalk graffiti by Jean-Charles De Castelbajac

RE-ENCHANTING EVERYDAY LIFE

interview

by OLIVIER ZAHM

portrait by Giasco Bertoli

 

Not many philosophers have engaged with the sphere of fashion, typically regarded as frivolous. Italian writer Emanuele Coccia and designer Alessandro Michele rise to the challenge of offering a new philosophy of fashion.

 

Emanuele Coccia’s new book, The Life of Form: Philosophy of The Re-Enchantment, in collaboration with designer Alessandro Michele, will be published this spring in Italy (Harper Collins), and later in France (Flammarion) and the USA.

 

OLIVIER ZAHM — You are one of the rare philosophers to approach and love fashion. You are informed about it, which is rare in the academic world. You have also developed an analytical perspective on it. Let’s start with the book you’re doing with Alessandro Michele. How did you two decide to approach fashion from a philosophical perspective?…