diego ballarinMilan, 2026résumé
writing • published pieces

editorial/portfolio

Five pieces on fashion, photography and the exhaustion of the new — three interviews, one counter-argument and an obituary that refuses the word it is handed.Cinque articoli che riflettono su moda, arte e fotografia.

Two pieces carry an Italian and an English original.
Neither is a translation of the other. You choose which one you read.
Fashion & Luxurythree
01Constantin Prozorov and the transformation of luxury Fashion into a dreamlike virtual fabulaA collagist who works only in found luxury imagery, and refuses the word artist for what he does. The interview keeps the refusal in.english
02Gucci and Balenciaga A/W 2022.
The allure of darkness: the slow suffocation of the real
Two collections were read as opposites, utopia against dystopia. They run on the same mechanism, and the reading is what the mechanism needs.
englishitalian
03Vivienne Westwood and the empty throne: opposition as a favour to powerEvery obituary called her a rebel. The word was granted by the institution she opposed, which is what makes it worth returning.englishitalian
Art & Photographytwo
04Benedikt Banovic and the harsh withdrawal from socials and clichéHe left the platforms that would have carried his work, and says art is whatever people find proper calling art. Both halves are meant.english
05Salvatore Matarazzo and his flash-sculpted subjectsStreet photography with a flash, which removes the street. What is left is a subject cut out of its own context, on purpose.english
diego ballarin — editorial writer and researcher
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