AleXsandro Palombo

(1973). Italian designer born in the Salento region. At 19 he moved to Milan to study fashion design and also to express and intensify his connection to the culture of Salento through studies of the ethnology and historiography of the Mediterranean region. In March 1998 he created the aleXsandro Palombo brand, with a capital X like the P in his surname to indicate the Christian symbol of pax Christi. After his first presentation in March 2001, the international press defined him as the artist-designer of ethno-eroticism. The American newspaper The New York Times of March 3, 2003 called him “a new talent of color and knitwear.” His creative path is characterized by the symbols of his land: the Taranta, a music and a dance which combine mysticism and sensuality, religious references to Padre Pio and Mother Theresa, and socio-political statements like the wearing of a kefiah.