InfemS x carolina herrera

Discover the inspiration behind Marie-Anne Mancio's 'Chameleon' commissioned by Carolina Herrera as part of InFems' 'Nightclubbing' collection of unique NFTS for International Women's Day 2022.

Discover the inspiration behind Marie-Anne Mancio's 'Chameleon' commissioned by Carolina Herrera as part of InFems' 'Nightclubbing' collection of unique NFTS for International Women's Day 2022.

Digital animation with sound 134MB. MOV file, 1723 x 1970 Included in the Nightclubbing NFT collection: Infems collaboration with Carolina Herrera. Against a background that enacts the colours of a night sky slowly brightening to daybreak and the sounds of a city, words emerge. Two Carolina Herrera evening dresses – one black, its silk skirts studded with pearls and mirrored petals; one fuchsia tulle – inspired this vignette of an encounter between strangers during one of the hottest New York Augusts on record. As well as representing the poles of midnight and morning, these colours are symbolic. If black is the timeless and unknowable future, pink is a blend of femme fatale red with virginal white and speaks to nostalgia, to a world seen through ‘rose-tinted glasses.’ Fusing several autobiographical memories from the now mythical summer of 2001, a time when celebrities queued for the ultra-fashionable bar of the relaunched Hudson Hotel and Brooklyn’s Water street still hosted artists’ studios, InFems artist Marie-Anne Mancio’s ‘Chameleon’ is a celebration of being thirty-something and without responsibilities. If her version of New York has disappeared forever, others have taken its place as the city thrives by re-inventing itself, just as a woman is the ultimate chameleon. Exclusive unlockable content available.