About 15 years in the past, Angela Missoni staged a Missoni present in Milan that type of blew your thoughts: Seemingly out of nowhere, she went full throttle with Ibiza rave power, and also you keep in mind the silver whistles dangling from heavy chokers and the novel square-top hairstyles greater than the space-dyed knits.
Marco de Vincenzo’s Etro present on Wednesday night time in Milan felt like an analogous breakout second: He made you neglect in regards to the model’s bohemian-meets-bourgeois esthetic and marvel at his up-for-it social gathering women, dressed partly for the seaside, partly for a flamenco social gathering.
Whether or not or not it’ll click on with shoppers stays the $64,000 query.
The designer employed up-and-coming Italian EDM star Daniela Pes to wail up a storm, and pummel the group with reverb because the fashions stormed out previous metallic and concrete sculptures of blooming agave vegetation.
Right here was a skimpier, extra freewheeling Etro silhouette constructed on cropped hoodies, slithering skirts, leather-based and denim biker shorts, flared denims and shipwreck mesh clothes and tops. Not all of it was flattering – not even Irina Shayk may promote these biker shorts – however it made a press release.
The home prints have been achieved up in psychedelic colours and scales, then dusted with crystals or sequins.
To make sure, the workmanship was spectacular, from the gossamer flocked velvet skirts to the flaring denim jacket with mesmerizing patches of picket beading.
De Vincenzo was feeling his oats backstage simply earlier than the present, declaring that two years into his tenure, he had discovered his viewpoint on Etro: It entails boldness, sexiness and “maximalism achieved in a easy means.
“This assortment represents me. I believe that it’s inconceivable right now, beneath stress, to do one thing that doesn’t signify your self,” he stated. “I’m at all times respecting the heritage, that ’70s temper, that hippie vibe, however with a brand new twist, doing one thing extra private… I’m including some contact of glamor.”
This prolonged to his underrated Vela bag with the articulated metal-frame high, which for spring is available in variations trimmed with groovy stones the scale of plump berries.