Thanks to our community’s generosity, we received the extraordinary life stories of Regina, Erina, Mafalda and Andrea, which guided our inspiration and took shape in the beauty of the creations included in the SS24 collection ‘Mani Ribelli’ (Rebellious Hands).
Thanks to our genuine connection to our territory, we turned the collection theme ‘Rebellious Hands’ into an event held in Serra de’ Conti and dedicated to the people who co-inspired it: a two-day event in which, through a presentation and an exhibition, we brought outside of our company the narration of our craft and the fascination which lies in our processings, to get our fellow citizens to know our work and give them back the fruit of the valuable stories they had entrusted us.

The initiative was driven by our intention to create a new opportunity to encourage a special connection: the connection between our employees, who had the opportunity to exhibit their work in public for the first time, and the local people, whose shared memories were reawakened by those works to be relived together with the community.
That’s why we chose to realise the ‘Rebellious Hands’ event in the form of an exhibition and an associated presentation and to immerse both of them in the evocative atmosphere of the Chiesa di San Michele (St Michael’s Church), which, with its intimate and warm space, intensified the emotion of coming together in a dialogue and connection project.

On Saturday 6 May, the main opening event took place. With that, not only did we open the event to the public, but we also opened Goretti’s world to the community to get its people to closely know our business and let them really feel part of our corporate ecosystem through important exchanges around stories, cultural and natural heritage and encounters between different generations – this is what nourishes us and unites us in a virtuous synergy.

The first step was the presentation: it was a sharing moment during which we, the Goretti people, guided the attendants on a journey of discovery of our work – a work where research and creativity, craft and avantgarde technique intertwine to give birth to the collection themes and products -, while keeping a strong focus on how the stories of Regina, Erina, Mafalda and Andrea went from being examples of a collective memory to becoming a source of inspiration for the extraordinary creations displayed there.  Our narration was joined by the TiVittori cultural association, which on the same day celebrated the final moment of the ARtS project, which originated the ‘Rebellious Hands’ theme.

Along with the presentation came the exhibition (which was open until Sunday 7 May) and also the joy of wonder: the joy of our craftspeople, who could live the experience of showing to their neighbours, friends and families the charm of their craft creations, displayed as true artworks; the wonder of the attendants, when they discovered that what at a first glance looked like paintings, turned out to be working panels on which excellence – both in craft techniques and technology – expresses all its nuances. The exhibition displayed complex works that have to go through different analysis and modelling steps, an accurate search for materials and the meticulous application of studs, stones, thermo-adhesives elements and similar components before expressing their final, great beauty.

We are grateful to all the people who took part in the event: thank you to the municipality for allowing us to organise the exhibition and to the mayor Letizia Perticaroli who gave a speech at the main event; to the families who gifted us with the stories of the protagonists of ‘Mani Ribelli’, and to the Goretti employees for their constant support.

We address a special thank you to the TiVittori association, with which we are bound by many shared values, including the involvement of young people in research projects on our local heritage, and the powerful role we ascribe to collaboration.
Together, we will continue exploring the stories of remarkably fascinating people to define the theme of our next collection. For now, however, we won’t reveal anything more, but we suggest that you keep following us to find out what will happen after ‘Rebellious Hands’, when we will embark on new life paths that venture into the crepuscular intensity of marginality.