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Patafisic was estabilished in Florence in 1995 by designers Brenda Cecchi and Andrea Sicuro, as a design studio dealing with fashion, interiors, graphics and live performance.
As a conscious tribute to the rational absurdity described by Jarry as Pataphysics, the search has always been focused on the intimate relations between basic and pure concepts and their possible, imaginary, deviant possibilities.

In the years knitwear has been the main field of application, a proposition of excellence in made in Italy. From the yarn to manufacture, the principles are quality, originality, focused design.
Patafisic looks at every item as an object, where complexity is clear and defined, and the goal is a confortable and playful wear.
Each season is not a style, no themes are pre-ordinated, there is no attempt to define a closed and static vision. Every collection is built around a continuous focus on the relation between body and geometrical shapes, the action of wearing and its potential creative consequences. It can starts from a detailed body observation as well from the domain of traditional elements or any possible experiment of (un)conventional wearing.

As an indipendent and unclassifiable design studio Patafisic has collaborated with different subjects and in different contexts and directions, from contemporary performing to highly qualified technical research, and some particular cases of individual projects, to enjoy a playful design for a private language.

Patafisic is a true personal action. It is not couture neither architecture: it is design, in the meaning of care for what it will be.
In motion and in meaning, a synthesis of language, design and - mostly - different considerations.

After 2005 Patafisic is designed exclusively by Brenda Cecchi.

permanent collaborators:

miKi Semascus, communication design.

keywords

objectivity (rigorously objective)
geometry (from 2D to 3D)
to fold a rectangle
flat thinking (flat)
tridimensional wearing (tridimensional)
to expand a basic
to expand a detail
to grow
architecture (space)
anthropometry
movement (to play with)
undefined fits
monotony (to repeat repeat repeat rep...)
inverse-converse-convertible
duality
doubt(s)
trompe l'oeil
in or outside
double (twice basic)
imperfection
slowly wear
keep playing
quit not save
keywords are not passwords

What is pataphysics?

"...most of all pataphysics is the science of the particular (...) it deals with the rules governed by exceptions and expound a supplementary universe (...) rules are an exception to the exceptions (...) pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions".

alfred jarry (1873-1907)
gestes et opinions du docteur faustroll,pataphysicien (1898)

"...la patafisica sarà soprattutto la scienza del particolare (...) essa studierà le leggi che reggono le eccezioni e esplicherà l'universo supplementare a questo (...) le leggi dell'universo tradizionale si riducono a eccezioni poco eccezionali (...)la patafisica è scienza delle soluzioni immaginarie".

alfred jarry (1873-1907)
gestes et opinions du docteur faustroll,pataphysicien (1898)