Rocco Siffredi for Dsquared2: the interview with the porn actor

Nolacks irony and sensuality, the capsule collection created by Rocco Siffredi for Dsquared2. A bit like the minds behind this provocative and fun project. A collection of garments and accessories inspired by the world of 90s porn, best represented by its absolute protagonist, Rocco Siffredi. A star who was able to go beyond the boundaries of genre cinema and become a character, also known in the mainstream, an integral part of popular culture. But also an ambassador of the correct approach to pornography and the importance of sentimental education of children.

We met the star on the occasion of the official launch of the collection in Milan.

How did this collaboration, which also brought you to the catwalk last season, come about?
Rocco Siffredi: Surely everything was born from an idea of ​​Dean and Dan (the designers of Dsquared2, ed) who really wanted to do something with me. But also from the desire to return to a freedom that existed before, in the 90s, when there was more carefreeness, less social media, fewer problems. A desire to return “to the human state”. And the fantastic thing about this message, which I find extremely beautiful, is that it means that I too have done something good in my life (laughs).

What relationship does it have with the brand?
I have had a relationship with them for a long time because I have always worn Dsquared2. And I wore Dsquared2 even on stage! But since every time the camera got close it read Dsquared2, I cut off all the labels that were visible. But I still have all my original jeans… with the tags cut off.

How did you create this capsule?
I must say that I was involved from A to Z. I provided everything I could give: ideas, photographs, thoughts. It was a 100% active collaboration on my part too. I didn’t just put my name on it.
I sent a huge package of polaroids, photographs and DVDs! I don’t know what they were up to in that period… (laughs) but they told me it was some crazy material. And from there all these covers were born with my wife and the one I cared about most they dedicated to me, and then we put the logo of the Siffredi Hard Academy which is my academy the first and only porn academy in the world for over 7 years. In addition to the posters of my films from the 90s, years in which we lived a slightly more “natural” life without too much stress.

Rocco Siffredi for Dsquared2, the capsule

Writings, colors, prints, a fusion of Rocco’s world, made of drawings and photographs, of the Dsquared2 logos and that of the “Siffredi Hard Academy”. The collection includes tailoring, sportswear, loungewear and underwear, all characterized by Rocco Siffredi’s unmistakable touch, sometimes surprisingly.

For example, the elegant men’s blazer with cigarette trousers in a soft silhouette hides Rocco’s film posters printed on the lining and inside the pockets. The same ones that are also found inside the leather bomber jackets with patch pockets. And then film scenes, logos and illustrated graphics decorate t-shirts and sweatshirts with and without hoods. A still image with a retro flavor portrays Rocco in the guise of Tarzan next to a model in a bikini, represented as Jane.

Among the accessories are a bag, baseball cap, slippers and high sneakers that recall the idea of porn star with the words “Porn Star” accompanied, in some cases, by red stars and blue stripes. The word “Porn” is printed or stitched also on shirts, t-shirts, tank tops, socks, boxers and briefs, while the underwear is also decorated with all-over images taken from Rocco’s films.

Should porn be explained today?

Rocco Siffredi has always maintained that porn is a vehicle for freedom of expression and emancipation. But what is happening to kids’ sexuality? He had already underlined it in a letter to Minister Roccella, porn in the hands of very young people must be explained otherwise it will have a negative effect.

You sent a letter to Minister Roccella to explain to kids that porn is fiction, it’s not real life. What more do you think could be done to rebalance young people’s relationship with sexuality and pornography?
We became sex education for young people because there was no one to explain anything to you, it wasn’t talked about at school. And I think that an hour of sexual education would have been useful because there would have been more attention.
With the letter to the Minister I didn’t want to be a professor, that’s not my role, but I wanted to say that perhaps we need to start talking not so much about sexual education – because young people have known everything for at least 30 years – but of how to approach in terms of feelings. And explain to them that porn stars are actors and that that’s fiction.

I receive hundreds of letters from desperate girls and boys with performance anxiety because they think they are not good, that they are not capable of doing the same things they see in the movies. But no one explains to him that this is cinema. The problem is that the anxiety for the man, for a boy, has risen to 10,000. While women have grown and liberated themselves with porn, man has lost himself. He is not ready for this change.

This aggression that I see around from kids who act in groups comes from the fact that they can’t psychologically act alone, they need support. Today girls are more aware and men are in crisis. This is an effect of the lack of dialogue at school, with parents, among themselves. There is too much anxiety that doesn’t exist. Woman has evolved and man is in crisis, this is the reality.

The solution is sentimental education, the most important of all. Explain that there are approaches, that sex is part of an interaction.

Rocco Siffredi is Supersex

Rocco Siffredi’s vote is also the subject of a series coming out on Netflix. The actor Alessandro Borghi plays him as an adult.

Have you seen Supersex yet? How does a biopic affect you?
See, it’s beautiful, fantastic. Yes it made an impression on me to see my life in 7 hours. It’s not for everyone to look back on their life for 7 hours. I only said one thing at the end, I knew it would be a wonderful series, but I hope that a biography told while I’m alive doesn’t bring me bad luck! (laughs).

I have to say that Borghi was fantastic in laying himself bare to play a character like me in Italy. But the other actors who played me in other phases of life, like Saul Nanni, were also very good.

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