Art, in all its forms
At RETORI, we celebrate art in all its forms, honoring its power to connect, inspire, and give shape to personal and collective stories.
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For each RETORI chapter, we engage in a stimulating dialogue with artists from different corners of the world, creating a space for reflection, inspiration, and creative exchange. For Chapter 04, this dialogue unfolds with Brazilian artist Gustavo Nazareno, whose work explores spirituality, self-conquest, and transformation through a symbolic visual language. Building on its exploration of the invisible forces that shape identity, RETORI’s Chapter 04 collection reflects on duality and transcendence, navigating the tension between light and shadow. Informed by his Catholic upbringing and Afro-Brazilian spiritual traditions, Nazareno’s practice is imbued with theatricality, grandeur, and chiaroscuro, exploring themes of ritual, metamorphosis, and inner strength.
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The Chapter 04 collection was unveiled at the brand’s first flagship store, located in the heart of Milan at Via della Spiga 48. The collection was presented through Inner Cosmos, a solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Gustavo Nazareno powered by opera Gallery. Inner Cosmos presents a selection of Nazareno’s symbolically charged works, exploring spirituality, transformation, and inner strength through a visual language informed by his Catholic upbringing and Afro-Brazilian spiritual traditions. For the occasion, Salotto Retori is transformed into an immersive environment, echoing the symbolic depth and emotional resonance that define both Nazareno’s practice and the Inner Cosmos collection.
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RETORI presents Chapter 03, Sentimento in Movement, a photographic project captured through the lens of French photographer Andréa Gori. The images focus on gesture and the rhythmic harmony of performers Hortense De Gromard and Adrien Dantou. Dance thus becomes part of the artistic language supported by RETORI through its collection storytelling, extending the narrative through movement and expressive performance.
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The Chapter 03 collection was unveiled at the brand’s first flagship store, located in the heart of Milan at Via della Spiga 48. On this occasion, Salotto Retori launched its cultural program with a solo exhibition by Manuela Navas. The exhibition revolved around the work of the self-taught Brazilian artist, who had contributed to shaping Retori’s Chapter 03 collection, titled “Sentimento.” Sentimento reveals itself as an ode to vulnerability and craftsmanship, straddling between structure and ease with poetic balance and graceful intent.
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For each RETORI chapter, we engage in a stimulating dialogue with artists from different corners of the world, creating a space for reflection, inspiration, and creative exchange. Building on its quest for the purity of the universal story, Retori’s Chapter 03 collection traces an evocative reflection on tenderness, fragility and nostalgia and an exploration of invented memories. Navas found in panting her charm to flow through the journey of life, documenting the poetry of motherhood, the quiet dignity of labor, the discomfort of inequality, the rituals of femininity, in an emotionally rich diary. Through her symbolic works, she confronts silent fractures with grace, nurturing forgiveness, respect, and honoring familial strength.
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For Retori Chapter 02 – Embrace your Identity, the artistic duo Anna and Maria Ritsch explore identity as a shifting landscape shaped by distance, memory, and lived experience. Moving across different spaces and personal trajectories, their paths diverge only to find each other again, reconnecting through a timeless and fluid bond that transcends place, time, and separation.
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Retori presents Chapter 02 in the heart of Paris, within the storied Atelier of Madeleine Castaing at 18 Rue Visconti. Here, the collection unfolds in an intimate dialogue with the artworks of Miko Veldkamp and the interiors curated by the Rooms studio, founded by Nata Janberidze and Keti Toloraia, where art becomes a vital medium of expression and connection. Fashion, space, and artistic practice converge, weaving together memory and contemporary vision in a shared narrative. This encounter stands as a tribute to evolution, to beauty shaped by time, and to the deeply personal, transformative journey of becoming.
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Nata Janberidze from Rooms Studio engages in an intimate conversation about identity, tracing the threads of her Georgian heritage and the cultural, emotional, and architectural influences that shape her practice. Through her work, materials emerge as a tactile and symbolic language—carriers of memory, place, and meaning—playing a central role in the formation of each creation, where personal narrative and collective history intertwine.
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For each RETORI chapter, we engage in a stimulating dialogue with artists from different corners of the world, creating a space for reflection and creative exchange. In this video, Miko Veldkamp reflects on his personal journey and artistic practice, offering an intimate view into the language, gestures, and ideas that define his work. Miko Veldkamp is the Dutch-Indonesian artist born and raised in Suriname, whose vision and sensibility inspired RETORI Chapter 02. Shaped by a multicultural upbringing and a life across continents, his work becomes a powerful meditation on the shifting, layered nature of identity, capturing the interplay between culture, memory, and self.
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Retori unveils its latest editorial story, entirely shot on film at Villa Simonetti, Osimo. Rooted in the dialogue between architecture and presence, the narrative is sculpted by space, guided by movement, and held together by invisible threads that interlace singular identities, revealing a timeless and deeply human dimension.
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For Retori Chapter 01 – Roots, Katrien de Blauwer, a self-described “photographer without a camera,” traces the delicate threads of memory, reworking Retori image through her own artistic lens. Like roots weaving through hidden soil, her practice uncovers presence in silence and meaning in what slips between the lines. Light, shadow, and texture converge to evoke intimate landscapes of recollection, revealing the subtle, lingering echoes of experience and the deep connections that anchor us to our past, our origins, and ourselves.
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Norwegian saxophonist blending performative and corporeal elements, acclaimed for his unique style.
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Seamstress and chef, Laszlo fluidly merges culinary artistry with creative visual design in her work.
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Berlin-based floral designer, renowned for her large-scale botanical sculptures and set designs.
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Director and scenographer who blends visual detail with a passion for fashion, design, and performance.
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The Chapter 01 collection was unveiled within the luminous spaces of a contemporary art gallery in the heart of Milan, where fashion and art entered into a seamless dialogue. Each garment resonated with the quiet elegance of its surroundings, while the gallery itself became a living stage, animated by performers across diverse disciplines. Works by Daniella Portillo and Diedrick Brackens—whose vision and practice inspired the collection—were interwoven into the presentation, their narratives and forms echoing through the space, shaping a poetic encounter where creativity, heritage, and presence converged.
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Unfolding as a tableau vivant, the Chapter 01 collection is captured in the Carlo Scarpa wing of the Gipsoteca Antonio Canova, where sculptures and plaster casts preserve the legacy of the Neoclassical master. German photographer Lena C. Emery frames models Marie Cornil and Sulian Rios, weaving motion and stillness into a living choreography. Their diverse backgrounds—as a product designer and a dancer—enrich Retori’s dialogue with artists, embedding the wisdom of transformative journeys into the collection’s DNA. In an oneiric interplay of light and shadow, models and statues merge with the space, sunlight casting an ethereal glow over every gesture—a meditation on presence, transformation, and the enduring power of art.
