Basking in the synaesthetic fantasy of the latest Versace Jeans Couture collection

To lose one’s ability to feel is perhaps one of the greatest personal tragedies of all. As animals, we are characterised by our five senses of sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste, as well as by the potential for these senses to overlap in synesthesia— the ability for sensation to be produced by one sense yet ‘felt’ in another.

Leonardo da Vinci believed that one of art’s innate qualities is that it functions as a prompt for synesthesia, arguing that “painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt”. Today, this legacy can be discerned in the latest Versace Jeans Couture collection. The Jeans Couture pocket of the Versace Universe concentrates its efforts on the intersection between the meeting point of “aristocracy and underground youth culture”.

Taken from our latest print issue, SLEEK #68 — The Desire Issue, this fashion story titled, ‘Urban Myth’, is inspired by both classical painting and sculpture as well as the styles and silhouettes native to streetwear. The end result is one sure to prompt a feeling of synesthesia in everyone that encounters it.

This fashion story originally appeared in SLEEK #68 – The Desire Issue, which is available now both in print and digital editions.

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