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Summer Playlist: Italo Zucchelli – the designer shares a sonic suburban trip as we roll into fall
Music | 9 September 2013
This article is part of Playlists – Tunes to live by

So we celebrated summer by asking music-fuelled designers John Varvatos and Romain Kremer to spill their current stereo sequences.

Now, wrapping our playlist series, it’s Italo Zucchelli’s turn. The Calvin Klein Collection head has put together a suburban set inspired by our Summer/Fall 13 issue (he was our 50 Questions guest this time round).

Zucchelli’s take on suburbia is brilliantly weird. From the theme to Twin Peaks (one of the best movie scores ever) to Antony covering Beyoncé’s Crazy in Love; industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle (a nod to out-of-town manufacture?); Haddaway, the sound of a thousand provincial nightclubs; plus a slice of restlessness through Steven Patrick Morrissey. To be honest, we’d expect nothing less clever or eclectic: this man uses impossible material like Mylar in his collections, a ‘fabric’ that only comes in gold or silver and cannot be sewn. Zucchelli found a way to dye it and piece together as tailoring.

“I like modern electronic, evocative [music],” the New Yorker-via-Italy, explains. “Music for me is like a piece of furniture in an environment, as important as a bed in an apartment. I wake up and immediately I put music on, and we have music on in the office all day long.” Follow his lead and click play.

Twin Peaks Theme by Angelo Badalamenti

Sigourney Weaver by John Grant

Hot on the Heels of Love by Throbbing Gristle

What is Love by Haddaway

Blue Velvet by Lana Del Rey

Everyday is Like Sunday by Morrissey

Crazy in Love by Antony and The Johnsons

Being Boring by Pet Shop Boys

Professional Widow (Armand’s Star Trunk Funkin’ Mix) by Tori Amos

Check out John Varvatos and Romain Kremer‘s summer playlists

Above image: still from Twin Peaks

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