Immensità
"Immensità was created as part of my fall 2018 Duomo collection. The collection was inspired by my love for the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina where I grew up. I spent four months in Italy during college, where I interned at the Florence Cathedral. It's known as the Duomo, which translates literally to home. In the US we generally associate this word with the cathedrals in either Florence or Milan, but in fact any cathedral can be known locally by this name, and an Italian friend explained that this is because the local cathedral is the home of the people's hearts. The collection, therefore, named the mountains as the home of my heart, sacred to me. Immensità was inspired by the open pastures and crop fields in the mountains, which lay bare the contours of the slopes, giving a sudden awareness of the hugeness of our surroundings and our own comparable smallness. Immensità translates to immensity."
- Elizabeth Shanahan
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