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Her Mess

Her Mess

Luca Valentini

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Signature: on the back of the canvas

Edition: unique

Year: 2025

SUPPORT: canvas

TECHNIQUE: Mixed technique

DIMENSIONS: 120 cm x 100 cm
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In this work, the point of tension isn't just luxury, but the clash between two opposing feminine myths, both absorbed and neutralized by the brand. Grace Kelly represents aristocratic elegance, composure, the "untouchable" icon-woman, frozen in an ideal of perfection and control. Jane Birkin, on the other hand, embodies naturalness, freedom, a more spontaneous, unruly, anti-formal image. The Hermès brand becomes the device that connects them and, at the same time, cancels them both. The slogan "In Birkin We Trust" marks a sort of symbolic victory for Jane Birkin as the new deity of contemporary luxury: no longer the princess, but the bohemian muse, closer to the idea of ​​authenticity that the market peddles today. And it is here that Grace Kelly screams. Her scream is no accident: it is the scream of someone who is being bypassed, replaced, surpassed; it is the fracture of an image that no longer supports the new system of values; It's the reaction to a faith that no longer concerns her, because now "we trust" someone else. Grace Kelly, historically linked to the birth of the Kelly bag legend, finds herself faced with a religion of luxury that no longer bears her name. The brand celebrates Birkin, while she remains trapped in the role of a silent icon. The outcry thus becomes symbolic jealousy, a loss of centrality, but also an awareness of the violence with which the luxury system creates and destroys its myths.

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