Marco Rambaldi twisted a historic Latin expression to adapt it to his imaginative and prescient and used it because the title of his assortment this season: Memento Amori (bear in mind to like). It was an exhortation to take care (once more) of what’s actually essential. Rambaldi, as a part of a collaboration with the European Parliament, wasn’t solely involved with love, but additionally equal rights, sustainability, and democracy: He reminded individuals to vote throughout the upcoming European elections this June by way of a sequence of posters hanging on the entrance of his present venue.
The designer translated this meals for thought into office-attire-inspired proposals that represented every day life, and in addition into the sensual particulars which have characterised his model because the starting. The present opener was a pencil skirt manufactured from deadstock eel pores and skin and a dévoré velvet jacket with a hidden Kama Sutra motif—the right mixture of the 2 souls of this assortment. Unmissable in a Rambaldi present, there was the presence of knitwear in his signature jacquard hearts, but additionally recovered handwoven crochet, in addition to trompe l’oeil ensembles that created the phantasm of erotic our bodies on clothes. On this “restoration strategy” some clothes from earlier seasons stood out, such because the cropped leather-based bomber overlapped by a detachable vest or the caban that reprised one belonging to Rambaldi’s father, barely renewed in its silhouette to be extra modern. To finish the gathering, Swarovski crystals have been utilized on tricot with an progressive 3D method and there have been jewels made with Priscilla Anati within the form of a thorny rose.
