Superheroes and other modern newfangled

Superheroes, idols and false myths. Increasingly surrounded by people and things that make us forget who we are, we delude ourselves to be able to figure out who we want to be, by looking at them. So it happens that our life is relativize so much to make us believe that we always have something intelligent to add to what others do.

We are so convinced that we feel to have the right to criticize the  Zara long dress  that Charlotte Casiraghi wore at Pierre’s wedding, without admitting thaa she is simply fabulous and if you were Beatrice,  Dante Alighieri’s loved woman or the star of a dremy wedding with 5 changes od dresses, you would understand it’s not easy at all.

Superheroes, only a child would believe it…

Mario is 7 years old. Or maybe 8. Every time we meet each other he asks me: Which is your super hero? And even if I should be prepared, I always hesitate.

My brain starts to open a thousand of drawers. If we talk about Architecture, I would say Les Corbusier who first put gardens on the rooftop, raised the buildings from the ground to push the open spaces beneath and drew with the skill and elegance of a stylist.

If we talk about Fashion, well then I’d say Dior, his Corolla dress, the love of flowers, the fabrics and colors that the roses in the gardens of his villa were equal beauty. And what about if we are speaking about real life?

“Superheroes can’t exist in real world“

and one thign more, he hasn’t asked this question. He asked me what my super hero is. There are not too many definitions. The answer must be found in a very small and unique field.

Why are you thinking so much? Mine is SpiderMan.

Please wait, I like superheroes too

Wait, wait somewhere I have my answer. I’ve never made neither a political issue, nor a religious affair. Even less I consider it a matter of strength and power. To be clear I would not be neither be Gandhi, nor the President of the United States.

I’ve always considered it just a matter of magic

I don’t know if it is prerogative of the favorite superhero, you so much desire to be him than you go to sleep hoping to dream you finally transformed.

And I even don’t know if a character worthy of this name, must necessarily be strong and save people. So, whatever the extrinsic and intrinsic characteristics that make someone merit the label of being named among possible superheroes are, I would appoint one and only one person.

And this is, Alice in Wonderland. Female stuff, he would say. I hoped to dream about her at night before falling asleep, to run behind her white rabbit and to take inspirations about editorials dedicated to her character. She is not a champion of justice, one who saves people, but definitely knows how to use imagination and, at the end, after many adventures and bizarre encounters, do it.

And what is this if not a metaphor for life? You probably do not need to fight, but let your feelings go. I wonder if the superhero of our dreams is closer than we think and we just have to find it within ourselves.

vestito MaxMara \ sandali Stradivarius \ divani Roche Bobois