Many years ago, Antonella Toffolo, a beautiful girl with two green eyes as big as a house, a dazzling smile, an art student, with whom together with many other children I divided the path into tram to reach school, said a phrase that caused me to laughter and that after many years I have always carried with me. She was far ahead of her time and with that particularly eccentric being but with an out-of-the-ordinary class and elegance. To the question: “How do you dress for Carnival?” Replied, “gabardine skirt and silk blouse.”
Why am I telling you this anecdote? Because it contains, in my opinion, the essence of Toiletpaper, the magazine created by the artist Maurizio Cattelan and the photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari and their headquarters in Via Balzaretti 4, which has become a cult and place where you can see the articles that (also) as a creative agency, have created, over the years and that you can find in their online shop.
Toiletpaper’s headquarters in Milan is the undisputed temple of anti-minimalism, design that is not taken seriously. The parody of the bourgeois living room. The wearing a gabardine skirt and a silk blouse at Carnival.
