CLUB COUTURE — ISSUE 02:
(Luca Vanoli)
Varese [Italy]
CLUB COUTURE is a new Apparel Music feature dedicated to emerging talents working across fashion, art, beauty, image making. Designers, stylists, artists and creatives whose practice sits somewhere between craft, culture and personal expression. The project starts from Milan, telling the stories of our local community and the people shaping it, but always with an open gaze outward. Each issue introduces new artists through short portraits. No hype, just process, taste and perspective.
CLUB COUTURE — ISSUE 02:
(Luca Vanoli)
Varese [Italy]
CLUB COUTURE is a new Apparel Music feature dedicated to emerging talents working across fashion, art, beauty, image making. Designers, stylists, artists and creatives whose practice sits somewhere between craft, culture and personal expression. The project starts from Milan, telling the stories of our local community and the people shaping it, but always with an open gaze outward. Each issue introduces new artists through short portraits. No hype, just process, taste and perspective.
Luca was born in 2001 in Varese and is currently based in Milan. His practice moves between painting, visual research and cross-disciplinary experimentation, shaped by a provincial upbringing, expressionist influences and a strong connection to electronic music. His work is driven by curiosity, constant transformation and an open-ended search for a personal visual language.
-Where are you from?
- I was born in 2001 in Varese. Growing up between the city center and the small towns around it gave me a close relationship with slow time and observation. I’m deeply attached to this place, to the lake, the woods, even if it’s a bubble where things tend to stay the same and there’s little sense of growth or forward vision.
-What kind of background did you grow up with?
- I started out at a scientific high school in Bisuschio, surrounded by greenery and forests. A very provincial environment, where boredom was real but so was the urge to do something. Even among kids from small villages, there were lots of little projects, some made music, some drew, some wrote. Not many external stimuli, but a strong drive to create.
-How did you end up choosing art and fashion?
- My first approach was through street art, then painting. During my second year of high school, I felt the need to change context and find a freer space to experiment. So I moved to the art high school in Varese, specializing in scenography. There I found a more open environment, focused on research and study, more complete overall. That’s where I began painting in a more conscious way, working through influences and references.
-How would you describe your style or your work?
- Today my work moves across different styles, right now it leans mostly toward expressionism. My visual language keeps shifting: I’m in a phase of constant experimentation and I don’t feel the need to lock myself into a definitive form.
-What are your main artistic influences?
- Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were key starting points, especially in terms of the body and painterly material. Later I gravitated toward German Expressionism, Die Brücke in particular, for its use of color and form. Music plays a central role in my research. I’m very connected to electronic music and to the dialogue it creates with visual arts. One project that still deeply fascinates me is Drexciya, along with its entire imaginary world and the influences that come from it.
-What were your expectations of Milan before moving here?
- I was expecting a freer environment, with more room for experimentation and for meeting people who share similar interests. I was looking for spaces of gathering, exchange, and discussion.
Milan is a fast city, often more focused on the container than the content. But the content is there, and it’s strong. It’s full of people who genuinely believe in the substance of what they do. It’s a city where, if you look, you find..
-If you were a object?
- A sampler. I absorb stimuli from the outside world, transform them, and give them back through a personal language. I believe in curiosity as a method, not closing yourself into a single language, but staying open to evolution, while always carrying your own identity into what you do.
-If you were a city?
- Iglesias (Sardinia). I’m attached to it because my grandfather still lives there. It’s a city connected to the sea, calm yet alive and full, at least the way I experience it.
-If you were a geometric shape?
- A cylinder, something that can hold things inside.
-If you were a food?
- Casoncelli, tied to tradition and to the place where I grew up.
-What would be your music for the Club Couture?
- Any kind of cross-pollination between sound, imagery, and vision, both thought through and deeply felt.
