“It’s a tragic time, I’m very afraid. On the identical time, I really like my job, my tailors, my staff. I assumed: let’s rejoice the Roberto Cavalli DNA in shades of gold.” Fausto Puglisi has the tough job of nurturing probably the most hedonistic aesthetics in style in a second when the world is flashing warning indicators and plenty of designers are in retreat.
However warning and Cavalli are two issues that don’t go collectively, so gold it was. It got here in myriad methods: in Karen Elson’s sunray pleats, a costume straight out of outdated Hollywood save for the up-to-date flat sandals it was paired with. On denim, the Cavalli signature accomplished right here in wild textures (these weren’t your fundamental blue denims). And through the silk velvet dévoré that gave Puglisi’s slip attire a touch-me dimensionality.
Minimize-outs—on bodysuits and body-hugging cocktail attire—meant there was loads of pores and skin on show. Elsewhere, tiger stripes have been picked out in lavishes of sequins. All of this was true to the Cavalli of outdated; Puglisi understands the model codes with out query. What it lacked was a few of Puglisi’s personal firecracker spirit: the obsessions with Carrara marble or the frescoes of Pompeii which have made it extra private and shocking.
To maintain the label contemporary and related within the mid 2020s, many years after its Glamazon heyday, that human contact is important. Right here’s hoping that Puglisi is allowed the chance to reconnect together with his personal interior wild youngster going ahead.
