If there's a word that sums up the FEBRUARY style is: synthesis.

Created in 2002 in Milan, by LUCIO VANOTTI and MASI MARIKA, as an experimental little collection of unisex printed t-shirt,it rapidly grew in a complete man & woman collection.

The line was originally inspired by the apparel of classic comics ,especially PEANUTS by C.M. Schulz, and that remains anchored in its DNA.But as the brand grew, it embraced a research of classic/basic wear, wich is the foundation of FEBRUARY's present style.

Lucio Vanotti and Marika Masi search to trasmit in their clothes :
SYNTESIS : research to comunicate with the least and special attentino to the meaning of shapes,colors and fabrics.
INTIMACY:like the intimate relationship of a person with his lucky t-shirt.
PROTECTION :a soft breastplate to confront daily life.

The ispiration for AUTUMN/WINTER 2010 collection are:

-GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
-SECURITY BLANKET
-AUTUMN SONATA chopin vs bergman
-WHITE SHEEP
-PETTY-BOURGEOIS

There is a little prints collection inside the collection: is a collaboration of FEBRUARY with CALVIN SUMMER : www.calvinsummer.com

CALVIN SUMMER - BIOGRAPHY
I was born and raised in Little Havana, a neighbourhood in Miami populated by a majority of Cubans. After having spent their college years in the fight against the "racial bigotry" raging across the US, my mother and father moved here where they teach in the schools in the Balzero camps to this day.
For the first eleven years of my life my parents took care of my education; until then the only world known to me was told in the pages of the books I used to read - my best friends the characters of those stories.
That's how I ran into Marcovaldo the character I consider my mentor. From him I learned my own vision of reality which may be considered surreal by some and "the one of a mentally retarded" by most. Yet, I believe that a tad of healthy genuineness can help to inject a different flavour altogether to everyday life.
My drawings are inspired by Italo Calvino's book; I started by illustrating the walls of my neighbourhood when I was 16: small representations of everyday life which unfortunately though always had short life because systematically covered by my fellow citizens' murals. So I started publishing my illustrations on this website.
I received much appraisal for my work and some requests to collaborate from some magazines and firms; I accepted these collaborations for one only reason: I am trying to scrape together the money to go on a trip to Torino, Marcovaldo's home town.

CALVIN SUMMER - REVIEWS
Calvin Summer is the artistic alias chosen by an amateur illustrator. His work draws on a passion for Marcovaldo, one of Italo Calvino's characters, an ordinary man from Torino as genuine as much as naive, on an unrepentant quest for the signs of nature around about the city, a quest methodically denied by the inauspicious as much as tragicomic misadventures.
Influenced by Calvino's work read at a tender age, Calvin Summer created a world for himself, or rather a world vision, apparently both extremely naïve and penetrated with melancholy in replacement of the humour of Calvino's character.
Featured by simple traits, Calvin's tiny men represent both the normality and the childishness of his characters, often associated to one or few elements generally over proportioned which amplify the character's smallness and passivity compared to the surrounding world.
These distinctive traits of Calvin's work are well portrayed by the illustrations chosen for a/w's February 2010 collection by asa~ama, collected in the fanzine given with each clothing item, curated by the author together with asa~ama.