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Power play and strong lines

March 14 - 20, 2018
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Gulf Weekly Power play and strong lines

Gulf Weekly Mai Al Khatib-Camille
By Mai Al Khatib-Camille

Roberto Cavalli’s creative director Paul Surridge continues to dazzle and captivate fashion lovers with the launch of the Italian house’s new line.

His Spring / Summer Collection has already received rave reviews and was inspired by the ‘life of the modern woman’ to showcase ‘strength, power and constant evolvement’.

The 2018 look also features a modern fresh perspective on glamour.

According to the British-born designer, this wardrobe is energetic, forceful, powerful and assertive, without surrendering its reality ... but it also holds on to some timeless pieces.

The looks are daring with curvilinear shoulders and the tailoring is sliced to reveal flashes of the body. The cuts on coats open high onto the thigh and trousers cut slim to the leg and slit at the ankle.

Stretch wools, silks and knit streamline silhouettes, contrasting with billowing chiffons, flirtatious drapes and transparent bouclé. In tribute to the bold label’s iconic evening wear pieces, the designer repurposed and revived a selection of them to be more suitable for this day and age.

Denim is also keyed with embroidery or used as a palette for tailoring in fine wool or luxurious crocodile and python skins. Other colours speak simultaneously of luxury and strength including violet, scarlet and graphic black.

Animalier patterns, that are inarguably Cavalli, decorate stretch silks and pattern fine knits. The designer also includes prints from lynx, lizard and crocodile with furs and exotic skins while clingy knit evening dresses showcase feather patterns.  

Cavalli’s artisanal craftsmanship comes into play with leather, embroideries and knitwear and inspiration is drawn from the ombréd surfaces of Murano glass, colouring chiffon dresses and tailored separates.

The shoes are agile and sharply pointed on a narrow, blade-like heel, and handbags are sharp, hung with metal, like weapons. Jewellery borrows from the Renaissance, the power of the Medici and the Borgias, combined with the delicacy of high Victoriana.







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