A RADICAL AND AVANT-GARDE DESIGNER, AN OUTSIDER IN THE WORLD OF FASHION, CAROL CHRISTIAN POELL PRESENTS AND SELLS) HIS CREATIONS IN A SURPRISING WAY, MIXING FASHION, ART AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT

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Carol Christian Poell loves tradition, sartorial details and textile engineering. But above all, he loves pursuing unexplored roads. "My experimental approach is highly technical, where aesthetics takes second place,"rnexplains the Austrian designer. Involved in fashion since he was a child, helping his adoptive father in the family business, he studied design and tailoring first in Graz and Vienna and then in Milan at Domus Academy. This is the primary element that differentiates him from fashion designers in the more traditional sense, bringing his work closer to that of an industrial designer.rnPoell has set up base in Milan where he has founded C.C.P., a small artisan workshop and now a cult brand where every garment and accessory is made by hand with "dedication and suffering", as he likes to emphasise. Here new fabrics and innovative techniques are experimented with and the artistic and craft-based connotation is one ofrnthe driving forces behind all of the work. Shoes are dyed after assembly, making it possible to dye only the ones that have already been completed. Likewise leather is treated after making up, a difficult job because accessories or clothes are consequently made using untreated leather. "It is an unpredictable way of making items of clothing, which can be manipulated in the same way as sculptures, each different from the other," continues Poell.