Torino Fashion Week chooses Villa Sassi: Cloud9 designs a dessert and a cocktail for the occasion.
testOn June 27 and 28, for the second year in a row, the historic Villa Sassi residence will host the eighth edition of Torino Fashion Week. The annual event, conceived by Claudio Azzolini and organized by TModa with the support of CNA Torino and the support of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, will give space – from June 26 to July 2 – to emerging brands, young designers and small and medium-sized businesses, through fashion shows, meetings and workshops. “I am happy that this year too the event will be held in the splendid spaces of the Turin villa at the foot of the Basilica of Superga” says Azzolini. “Villa Sassi and Torino Fashion Week have a lot in common. After a past of great splendor, both have gone through difficult times. Their repositioning within the Turin panorama certainly required a lot of effort, but in the end it also brought great satisfaction to both of them”.
Once the residence of royal families and a holiday destination for politicians and artists, the residence is now confirmed as the ideal location to celebrate the future of independent, innovative, local, Italian and international fashion. If it is established as the backdrop for the first catwalks organized by CNA Federmoda scheduled for June 27 and 28, for the first time it is dedicating to the event – in the guise of Executive Chef Alessandro Braga and Head Bartender Roberto Palestini of Cloud9 (the American bar of the Villa) – a themed dessert and cocktail (alcoholic and non-alcoholic).
“The event will be a real journey through style and we at Villa Sassi have the opportunity and pride to inaugurate it” says Patrizia Reviglio, the owner of the seventeenth-century residence. “From traditional tailoring, characterized by knitting and crochet, to frontier tailoring, which includes real sculpture dresses, bordering on the world of art, the event will certainly be the perfect opportunity to celebrate creativity. Creativity itself is the key ingredient of the recipes that Alessandro and Roberto have thought up specifically for Turin Fashion Week, in the first case inspired by current trends and in the second case by classicism”.
