"Luke Azzopardi has teamed up with multidisciplinary storyteller Anthony Halldór Mizzi for the creation of a limited edition inscribed collection of wearable artefacts. This collaboration forms part of the studio’s collection #11: “Psychopomps” - an investigation into biological life cycles and Lepidopterology."
https://www.lukeazzopardi.com/collaboration-anthony-halldr-mizzi
A less conventional but no less special collaboration with Maltese fashion designer, Luke Azzopardi. Over the years Luke created his own niche within the fashion world through otherworldly designs of dresses that melded both past and present seamlessly. Since then, little has stopped Luke from experimenting with more garments and more worlds. We met for a drink at a time when one had to order dinner to be able to have a drink. I haven't the slightest recollection of the food, not because I got drunk, but because my mind was fixed solely on the ideas of the man in front of me. Luke was then at the early stages of a new project that explored myth and culture through the Victorian Enlightenment, down to the Ancients. Precisely my academic background. It was as though all my experimental writing from my time at university were awaiting this encounter.
Through months of research and revisiting old historical documents, books, research and poetry, we devised what we felt to be a modern invitation to reach back into our unconscious past. The garments include prints and embroidery of my own typewriter and pen. The remainder is an unconscious splattering of ancient dreams.
A message to Luke:
A message to Luke:
The last time that I felt fate had its say in my life I was in the basement of a library, surrounded by an indiscernible mess of modern and ancient social history, archived etymology, natural philosophy and ancient mythology. Yes, a mouthful. Although it was a time of uncertainty, a page in one of those books connected every thought and decision I’d made up until that moment and for the first time I felt I was where I needed to be. Since then those pages have still influenced everything I do, quietly and in the dark, until a conversation with Luke would bring it all back into the light and under the magnifying glass; to those same dusty pages and the once discarded poems and reflections of mine that lined their margins. This wasn’t just a collaboration, this has been my life. Thank you Luke, for being a reminder that it’s in between these forgotten pages of history that I was always meant to land and I’m glad to have found you here.
