The Fashion&Food project by Salvio Parisi, art director and advertising and publishing photographer, journalist for events and culture of the area between Naples and Campania. The less conventional fashions, the local beauty and the new face of well-known starred chefs in balance between professional profile and art, culture and territory, tailoring and high-ranking food and wine.
“Special tasters” adopted and hosted from time to time by the world of theater or entertainment, from that of culture and art, from that of design and fashion or from society and solidarity.
By choice, research, opportunities and a panorama of talents and excellence, everything is essentially Made in Campania.
The 2023 edition takes a heartfelt look at the sense of rebirth, at the original desire for union and at an eternal concept of familiarity and fruitfulness.
It involves the world of archeology and ancient Italic or Campanian art with a particular focus on the Mater Matuta of the Campano Museum in Capua, where among the magnificent tuff statues of women with children on their laps one breathes authentic auspices of spirituality and realism, ancestral worship and rituals, family and “ex voto”, nourishment and fertility: in a word, re-birth.
It collects the contemporary testimonies of this place between mystical and hieratic, hosting among the portraits of the “special tasters” six institutional and artistic representations of this prestigious museum pole, unique in the world, as well as of the Caserta area.
For all this it is called “Matres et Coqui”.
Three peculiar points of this edition: the visual mixtures at the «Ave Mater» exhibition by Lello Esposito, whose works between Vesuvius and sirens stand out in most of the portraits in the lunar landscape; the twinning with the University of Caserta Luigi Vanvitelli (department of political science), the Italian avant-garde for the educational offer of young students in the South; the special partnership with Casolaro, a leading company in the Italian and international hotel sector. Here are the cooks and the “tasters”, the outfits and the dishes for the six two-month periods.
In the first Martial Rosannachef of Le Colonne in Caserta, in Eles Couture “oriente”, chooses sheets of pasta, vegetables and buffalo mozzarella from Campania for the professor Francesco Eriberto D’Ippolitodirector of the Political Science department at Vanvitelli in Caserta, with a suit by the Neapolitan tailor Gabo. In Spring to March April Fabio Biondichef at Sunrise in Caserta, wearing a KNT look by Kiton, prepares cod in a panko crust on potato purée and tempura samphire for Monica Sarnelli, Italian voice daughter of Partenope, dressed in matt gold by Maria Riccio’s Ombelico. In May June they are from Michael DeLeo, chef at the San Domenico di Capua estate, in AD Uomo outfit, spaghetti with roasted scampi, Mangalica lard, salted lemon and bran pepper powder for Maestro Esposito, author of the works next to the Matres in the images of this Calendar. In summer for July August Giuseppe Molarochef of Contaminazioni in Somma Vesuviana, in a deconstructed dress by Attolini, opted for his pappardelle with earthenware ragù, parsley sauce and anchovy crunchy for Raphael Magi Supreme Court judge. With autumn to September October Sasa Martuccipizza chef of I Masanielli in Caserta, in a pinstriped double-breasted suit by Rubinacci, chooses his Ammiraglia (reinterpretation of marinara) for Joseph Piconestar and international choreographer, portrayed in an opulent stage dress by Joseph Tramontano. For November December at Christmas is Giuseppe D’addio and Aniello De Caprio, chef and pastry chef of the Dolce & Salato academy in Maddaloni, both in Isaia look, the panettone for the doctor Donatella Caiazzocultural entrepreneur, wearing a carmine velvet dress by Alexandre Vauthier from Mario D’Anna.
Fashion&Food Calendar 2023, Salvio Parisi with «Matres et Coqui»