Lucia Romagnoli

Ab Umbra Lumen by Lucia Romagnoli explores the feeling of living as someone’s shadow, and the quiet courage it takes to step away and find one’s own light. The shadow does not seek to overpower, but to carve out its own space to exist and shine. Structured 1970s silhouettes serve as the architectural foundation, their rigidity referencing walls whose shadows trace a path toward emergence, while three-dimensional floral details carry the symbolic weight of courage and renewal. Rather than leaning into darkness, the palette draws from the warmth and brightness of the decade, suggesting transformation over melancholy. Wool, leather, and coated denim are combined with two distinct knitwear techniques, a painted weave that merges light and shadow conceptually, and an embroidered jacquard where flowers appear to emerge from the surface itself. Ab Umbra Lumen is a collection about becoming visible, slowly, structurally, and on one’s own terms.