Fausto Puglisi is Italian. He likes to mix in odes to Miami and New York and other places through his collections, but at their core they’re always designed to represent his motherland. For fall, he went home old school in a very new school way. “I started with one of my latest obsessions [Paolo] Sorrentino,” said Puglisi, name-checking the writer/director of such lavish modern cinematic interpretations of Italian traditions as “The Young Pope” and “La Grande Bellezza.” “Rome and Naples but twisting in a modern way like today.”
He made his point very effectively the way Sorrentino would have, by opening his show with a short yet lush and direct fashion film featuring actress Cristina Donadio, a woman who has lived and it shows, engaging in a badass dressing ritual among the Greco-Roman statues in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. She shows up as a power b—h wearing the ersatz tough side of Puglisi’s aesthetic — aggressively gilded lather bomber jacket, printed T-shirt, butch boots — and directs her court of Puglisi-clad minions to change her into a rich, regal red brocade dress robe, slippers and intense jewelry. She’s transformed into a different kind of queen. The film put his thoughts in
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