Installation
Fashion Hub / Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana
Milano Fashion Week, September 2026
The mirror is the threshold through which we measure our own image, the projection of our desire. It is the symbol of that impulse which has always been the silent engine of fashion. In this mirror, Mirror, however, the reflection is denied. MP5 composes a chorus of figures seen from behind: essential, timeless bodies, stripped of every artifice. Anonymous, yet not uniform, each one carries its own posture, its own physical truth; they do not return our gaze but look ahead, in the very same direction as us. Those who observe the work do not stand before the image but become part of it.
Desire is a constant tension, never satisfied, one that moves and redefines the viewer, the same tension that fuels fashion in its perpetual capacity to define what we wish to represent of ourselves. If the mirror has always been the symbol of this mechanism, here it ceases to give back what it sees, in order to reflect us instead as a community in search of something. It is us, in the act of desiring.
A mirror that does not reflect is an invitation to look at oneself without the dictatorship of form.
Curated by: Beniamino Marini
