Marni’s first look presented at Milan Fashion Week was a limey yellow, layered trench, setting a colourful precedent to the remainder of the collection. Successive looks proved just as strong, but often with a subtler and more design-oriented demeanour. Slouchy, loungey knits paired with shorts, which seemed a consistent staple piece, appropriately so, of the spring collection.
Other trenches bore zippers, hoods, and intricacies like layering, a cape-like silhouette, or emphases on revealed pocketing. In this way, there seemed a military influence in certain garments, akin to, or reminiscent of, the way Norma Kamali’s parachute looks relied on the concepts of military with tendencies like the exposure of zippers and pockets.
The sandals featured in the collection, as the Marni footwear often is, were of note. The models often worked thick-strapped, bandage-like sandals, which paired well with the pleated, kilt-like draping on some of the shorts looks. Together, these concepts seem to hearken back to military times of a different era, of the Ancient Grecian and Roman arenas, perhaps.
This season’s collection was refreshingly appropriate for the spring, happily consistent with the label’s characteristic plays on shape and silhouette, and boasted fabrics and a colour palette that prove diligently attentive to the season’s trends.
by Emily Rae Pellerin
Images courtesy Style.com