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Roberto Cavalli: Even Cowgirls Get Great Clothes
By Godfrey Deeny
Photos by: Gruber-FWD
Roberto Cavalli dished up some more of his high-octane fashion Wednesday in his Spring/Summer collection
that hovered somewhere between the Wild West and a Victorian bordello.
Roberto was more feminine than ever, covering an immense backdrop and a long catwalk with stripes and wild
roses, and packing his collection with prints of a botanic garden of flowers and Toiles de Jouy in various
hues. These he mixed up with his usual wild animal prints of leopard and tiger which were slashed, decomposed
and embroidered endlessly.
Cavalli's great strength is making wild, erotic clothes that push sensuality to the limit without becoming
lewd. That talent has won him a hoard of well-heeled admirers who want to look hot without looking indecent.
His women have an erotic, almost feral quality symbolized this season by their soft, suede cave-girl boots,
Indian feather earrings and necklaces, and belts covered in tortoise shell and mother-of-pearl objects.
Roberto's big idea this season was metallized leather, which he used in biker jackets and worn jeans
embroidered with flowers. The designer used Photoshop more effectively than anyone in Milan this season in
an evening foursome of dresses and tops in a biological print of blown up cells.
Cavalli's cats are wild but never primitive.
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