This is what the future looks like — on a couple of levels.
First, in an ideal world, Marco de Vincenzo’s show, a wonderful display of creativity and momentum from the rare ascending designer in Milan, will be his breakthrough. He stepped up this season, bringing his show to an impressive, much larger venue than in the past — the Milano Congressi fairgrounds, just a door down from and directly preceding the Versace show — and designing a collection that commanded the space.
Second, the collection was actually about the future in a most original and plausible way. It wasn’t Space Age or digitally driven, it was thoughtful and expressive, pushing the everyday forward in a dreamlike way, which is how we actually get to the future.
“Every time someone asks me about the future of fashion, I have many answers,” said de Vincenzo backstage. “This season, I needed to think about the past, something familiar like pleats, fur and pearls that are considered a classic in every feminine wardrobe, and to add a very contemporary touch.” He treated very traditional, bourgeois uniforms — plaid apron dresses and pleated skirts, quilted jackets, blouses, furs — in fantastical ways. The mundane was reworked with color, eccentric prints
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