HOLIDAY SPIRIT: Undeterred by the autumnal British showers, Isa Arfen designer Serafina Sama wanted to bring a taste of the Italian Riviera to London.
She took over a dining room at the Italian restaurant San Lorenzo — an old Knightsbridge favorite that dates back to the Sixties and transports guests to the Mediterranean by way of palm trees and old-school paintings of the coast — to showcase her latest spring collection and give her guests, who included Charlotte Dellal, Alexa Chung and Martina Mondadori, a taste of her happy, colorful world.
Models ate, drank and danced around in a room filled with tinsel, origami and half-empty glasses of Aperol spritz, showing off the collection that was filled with cute pink check dresses, airy striped shirts, bright floral jacquard skirts that had a vintage feel and loose T-shirts with postcards of the Italian Riviera printed on them.
It was Arfen’s love letter to Italy: “The collection was a nostalgic homage to my childhood and the endless summers of I spent in the Italian Riviera. My mood board was full of photographs of Luigi Ghirri, Massimo Vitali, Charles H. Traub and Martin Parr,” said Sama.
Having skipped the London catwalk in September in favor of one-on-one appointments
Follow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
Read More…