Italian rock band Måneskin are riding
high with their new album Rush! top of the iTunes charts in 20
countries, including Italy, France and the USA:
The rockers are also in the running for the best new artists
award at next weekend's Grammy's and their golden moment has
been certified with a feature in the style section of the New
York Times.
The piece by fashion editor Vanessa Friedman, entitled "The Joy
of Dressing Like a Rock God", focuses on how bass player
Victoria De Angelis, drummer Ethan Torchio, lead singer Damiano
David and guitarist Thomas Raggi have used style to make a
statement.
Among other things, it refers to the mock wedding staged in Rome
to launch Rush! in which the band members vowed "to be faithful
to each other always, in joy and in pain, in love and in honour"
every day of their lives in a ceremony that was presided over by
former Gucci artistic director Alessandro Michele.
"Rarely has a young band used fashion to amplify and extend its
message with quite as much eye-popping cheer as Maneskin," wrote
Friedman.
"From the time it burst onto the global scene in Rotterdam in
metallic burgundy leather lace-up Etro, looking like the love
children of Jimi Hendrix and Abba and belting out "Zitti e
Buoni," the band has become synonymous with a particularly kind
of gleeful rock god get-up".
The Rome group, who first won fame in Italy by taking part in
the X Factor, have enjoyed major international success since
winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2021.
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