URANIA After Six is the second act of the URANIA Not Original Fashion Show series, presented with the URANIA White Label edition at the MACRO in Rome.
The title After Six references "cocktail" dresses and "evening" wear, and the show takes the form of a live performance in which displaying becomes three-dimensional, activated through bodies in motion. The event slips into the evocation of a ritual, a ceremony alluding to the reenactment of one of fashion history's most glamorous moments: the Black and White Ball organized by Truman Capote at the Plaza Hotel in New York in November 1966.
Where the first edition in Milan presented workwear and army clothes as a display laid out flat across the floor of a large industrial shed, After Six lifts the garment off the ground and sets it in motion, reanimating the archive through performance rather than installation.
As with the broader URANIA Not Original project, no new pieces are produced. The garments are stripped of their original meaning, function, gender and intrinsic value, and handed over to fashion with a new, confused and collective authoriality, serving no purpose beyond that of a temporary representation of the self.