Canali Hosts ‘Under the Surface’ with Artist Brian Rochefort

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Canali hosted a special cocktail event last week to celebrate ‘Under the Surface’ with artist Brian Rochefort at Glasshouse Chelsea in the Chelsea Arts Tower. The event unveiled their global project, which highlights the making of a Canali jacket through hundreds of tailoring gestures that allow for meticulous attention to materials, construction and design. The campaign reveals the craftsmanship and intricate processes that take place to create their pieces. Thursday’s event welcomed Canali’s global brand ambassador Ethan Hawke, composer and pianist Eric Christian von Fricken,  Nick Wooster,  Rōze Traore, creative director Mobolaji Dawodu, designer Timo Weiland, actors Tyler Lain and Hunter Kohl, Hawke’s stylist Michael Fisher, creative director Josh Peskowitz, and more.

Canali partnered with sculptor Brian Rochefort, who created original works that capture the concept of achieving the final creation through carefully controlled layers. According to the brand, ‘His art shows an ongoing exploration of ceramic processes and glaze chemistry that take influence from his travels from the Galápagos and the Amazon to East Africa through abstract forms that evoke craters, coral formations, mineral deposits and eroded landscapes. Each sculpture is developed through successive layers of clay that are fired repeatedly as glazes to create texture and shape as the glazes, slips, pigments and glass accumulate, pool, crack and crystallize. Incorporating Canali’s signature earthy hues, each work is a journey through the process of discovery and detail.’

Under the Surface continues in Milan this week with Diego Perrone and closes in Mumbai with Thukral & Tagra on November 28.