A beginning is a dialogue.

As Simone Bellotti steps into the rooms that JIL SANDER built, his aim is to create an ambience and an ambiance that are personal and yet in dialogue with what was there at the beginning. He does so in ways that are emotional, both visually and aurally: through a music video illustrating enthralling beats, and a whole EP.

Music owns a double-sided power: it is ineffable and abstract, but also piercing and precise in the way it channels and triggers sentiments and moods. A music video is a visual tapestry in which a sense of narrative blends with abstraction, and images in motion are amplified by sounds. Duality, again, is the byword.

For Simone Bellotti, JIL SANDER is a house that owns duality. Its aesthetic is based on the power of heightened simplification, and the energy released by the face-off of strictness and lightness, rigor and abandon. This opposition is captured by the city of Hamburg, with its Northern elegance and harbor thriving in all kinds of activities, where it all started.

Hamburg is the backdrop of the video: a wanderlust tale happening in an everyday setting, drifting between worlds and opposites.

Contrasts - stillness meeting with chaos, day blending into night, nature colliding with urban sprawl, raw, unfiltered moments featuring real individuals from Hamburg’s hidden corners alternating with cinematic scenes

and mundane moments - release a lyrical flow set to Bochum Welt’s melodic electronica.

A combination of the German word for “world” (welt) and the name of a high-powered astral telescope,

Bochum Welt is the stage name of Italian electronic musician Gianluigi Di Costanzo. His mix of aural electronic experimentation and sentimental dance has an affinity with the JIL SANDER duality.

The list of tracks on the vinyl EP is a narrative of oppositions into itself: Crystal Ice / Wanderlust / Shades / Night’s Frost / San Peder a Sent / More Light (Escape Mix) / Cresting Waves

By choosing music for his first JIL SANDER project, Simone Bellotti aims at exploring a tool that entices and expresses emotions. The move signals the intention to support music on the long run, as integral to the definition of the JIL SANDER landscape.

The vinyls are available at select JIL SANDER boutiques, JilSander.com, and across Kudos distribution worldwide later in August.