The wallflower notion is lost chez Versace. Donatella Versace described channeled a dark Gothic goddess for spring 2023, focusing on black, purple and hard-edged glamor. Evening at Versace is always a glamorous affair played out to maximum wattage cases in point here were the black numbers made in illusion net sparkling with bejeweled fan-shaped inserts and brooches, and further studded with a cascade of rhinestones and crystals in all possible shapes and sizes. And responsibly-sourced vegan Latex looked no less than luscious on a not-so-bourgeois baby pink trench coat, and body-hugging black midi dresses and midriff-baring top/skirt combinations, paired with matching boots/stockings hybrids. Strict-tailored skirt suits and coats were nip-waisted, small-shouldered, and almost severe yet very sexy, a territory that Versace navigates rather deftly. Without softening much the sassy early 2000s vibe of the Swap, a sexy, slinky silhouette was the collection’s standout, with stretchy jersey dresses pierced by keyholes at the neckline, and flashes of lingerie strings peeking out at the hips from low-slung stretchy pencil skirts, or jutting out at the décolletage of plunging v-necks. “Whoever said that it cannot be black and white? I see creativity as an opportunity and a way of looking at things you’ve known all your life from another perspective, transforming them into something new that, like a scent, reminds you of past emotions, but they’re now completely connected and rooted in the present moment.” Explaining her take on the collection, Donatella hinted at the unapologetic embracing of challenges and reinventions that drives her work ethos. A magnified black and white incarnation of the Barocco motif was introduced, as proof of the vitality of the house’s archive. Sitting in stores alongside the Fendace collection, pre-fall reads as a visual antidote to the bold impact of the show’s print overload. According to the design team, the Swap experience was fabulous but rather intense in its making: “It was incredibly amazing,” they said. Pirouetting across each other’s archives, the fashion trimurti traded off their respective fundamentals in a key-codes crossover which didn’t dilute visual identities or values.īack to planet Versace for a showroom appointment, pre-fall was given a toning down of the Fendace vibe, a catch of breath of sorts after the collaboration, fueled by Donatella’s inexhaustible energy. Clothing textures clash together in opposing fringe finishes, slick latex, lurex jacquard, tweed and leather. In an ode to Richard Avedon, the Hadid Sisters and special cameos boast their sisterly bond. As far as haute collabs go, it won’t be easy to upstage the Swap, better known as Fendace, the stroke of branding genius masterminded by Donatella Versace and Fendi’s Silvia Venturini Fendi and Kim Jones, which landed to internet-crashing effect in September. Medusa has indulged in psychedelics, travelled to a trippy world of color and pattern and emerged on the other side distorted but exuberant as Medusa Musica new print inspired by '70s psychedelia. It Stays In The Hadid Family For Versace SS22.
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