Trend Les Copains by Antonio Marras: Delicate, Pretty and Feminine
By Michelle Taylor
Photo by Giovanni Pucci
MILAN, Oct 1, 2003/ FW/--- Fairies exist and Antonio Marras for Trend Les Copains is convinced. His goddesses parade on grass and live amid budding roses.
The 2004 spring summer collection presented today at Milano Collezioni takes make believe and fantasy worlds of little girls to new heights.
Prancing, playing and cheeky. Micro shorts and single buttoned short tailored jackets with cuffs that turn up like shirts accentuate the female body, voluptuous and ripe. As the nymphs dance so do the loose ruffles and transparent, multi layered light skirts, tops and dresses they wear.
Marras’s asymmetrical trademark is obvious as he buttons, zips and ties his pieces together, and even when edges and techniques that are traditionally sharp like deliberate cutting and pointy triangle edges are used, they remain soft and airy.
The jerseys knitwear is beautiful with oversize collars, cuffs and waistbands, large knit like net, soft and cosy often has beads incorporated so as to shimmer like ‘Tinkerbelle’.
The colour palette is made up of romantic and faded ancient pinks, greens and Bordeaux. Dragonflies, butterflies and floral appear on bags, shoes and tone on tone fabrics leaving one imagining embossed and embroider 1800’s sitting rooms.
Bomber jackets come with three quarter length sleeves and multi pockets. Shapes are free to transform, fabrics move and breathe with the women who carry them.
Tunic wearing goddesses walk through ancient cities, they are full of power but at the same time delicate, pretty and feminine. Dress ups made possible in Trend Les Copains world.
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