A contamination between old and new, between past present and future, that expressed in the new collaboration between FILA and Aries.
A capsule collection, called “Vela Nera”, that digs into the historical heritage of the Italian brand founded in 1911 and at the same time, seems to be a perfect blend of FILA’s heritage and the philosophy of the London streetwear brand.
The collaboration has the peculiarity of being characterized by a meticulous attention to detail, as well as having as a narrative carpet the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, expressed aesthetically in a wonderful way thanks to the photos and videos of David Sims.
A tribute to one of the most famous legends of Greek mythology which tells about how Minos, king of Crete, not being well seen by the Cretans, prayed to Poseidon to send him a bull to be sacrificed in honor of the god as a symbol of appreciation as sovereign by the gods and to bribe the population accordingly. Poseidon agreed and gave him a beautiful and precious white bull. Minos chose not to kill the animal but to keep it for his herds and sacrificed another.
Poseidon, angry for the disrespect suffered, punished Minos by making his wife fall in love with the bull. Pasifae, wife of Minos, managed to join carnally to the bull and from their intercourse was born the Minotaur: with human body and bipedal, hooves and head of a bull. Of violent and cruel nature, Minos had him locked up inside the labyrinth of Knossos feeding him every year with 14 children, 7 males and 7 females.
Theseus, son of the king of Athens Aegeus, offered to face him and defeat him once and for all. With the help of Ariadne, daughter of Minos and Pasifae, who had fallen in love with him and who gave him the famous thread at the entrance of the labyrinth that would allow him to find his way out and a sword with which to kill the Minotaur, Theseus succeeded in the enterprise and with Ariadne embarked to return to Athens. On the way back, however, Theseus abandoned Ariadne on the desert island of Naxos (the reasons are controversial), and Poseidon, angry for the gesture, ripped the white sails (sign of victory) that Theseus himself had hoisted on the ship. Forced to change them with the black ones (sign of defeat) to continue the journey, once arrived in Athens, his father Aegeus seeing the black sails on the horizon (hence the name of the capsule collection Vela Nera), believed that his son had been devoured by the Minotaur and committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea, which was then called precisely Aegean Sea.
A story, a legend, a myth that will never be forgotten and that still inspires contemporary realities like Ares in this latest collaboration with FILA.
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