Superstudio hosts creatives—this is a given. What is less obvious is opening the doors of a professional studio to young designers tackling their very first fashion shoot and giving them complete freedom. Today, Superstudio 13 does exactly this for us, NABA students from Milan, invited to experiment in some of the most important studios in the city.
For many aspiring stylists, this is their first time in such a vast space—the location’s Studio 1—but that doesn’t stop us from immediately making it our own. Clothing racks overflow with garments used to build creative and eccentric outfits; steam from the iron fills the air as we fix even the smallest crease in our looks; the dressing room becomes a critical point—fitting 30 outfits and 30 stylists is no easy task—amid models changing in a race against time.
Make-up artists try to satisfy everyone: “Maybe I’d add a bit of gloss; it will give her a more Parisian feel.” Time flies, but we stylists move even faster.
At the end of the day, guided by Professor Alberto Zanoletti, we photograph thirty looks, all different: from Parisian elegance with street accents to visions inspired by the sexual revolutions of the 1980s. That’s the point: observing the frenzy and diversity that run through us and fill the studio. Superstudio, the stage for major shoots and events, becomes a small creative laboratory in constant “boil.” And this time, the ones lighting the flame were us.
NABA, Superstudio 13, via Forcella 13, Milan