The price of art and the vintage of your Ferrari
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Welcome to the HERO SS15 daily roundup – the most important shows, themes and concepts, contextually curated for your reading pleasure. The best place to understand the week’s events in fashion.
Leave it to DSquared2, kicking off our final day in Milan, to create a scene. Previous tableaus have included tropical islands, jazz clubs and, er, prison as the backdrops to their collection. People tend to think this is what every show you go to is like, all tanned skin, raised catwalk and the musical boom-thump-boom-thump-boom-thump you get at fancy European nightclubs.
Today we witnessed a tribute to The Factory, populated with models living a creative dream, from a life model (in swim briefs) being immortalised on paper to Billy Name photographing a hyper glammed Edie Sedgwick.
Dsquared2 SS15: Look 12
The collection featured plenty of DSquared2 staples – denim, skinny ties, pop graphics. The standout was a Stephen Sprouse tribute, taking in the icon’s neon camo and signature scrawl. In a recent episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, there was a bit of stress over an inherited Modigliani, which turned out to not be the real thing. Will the Caten’s customer be bothered about the provenance of their tailoring? Likely not, they’re smiling and shimmying their way through life as much as the twins themselves.
After a blip in which we wondered whether we’d make it to Paris at all – a planned French air traffic control strike had agents, models, editors and stylists brainstorming inventive ways to get to France from Italy – Roberto Cavalli installed his beautiful vintage Ferrari Daytona, in its ubiquitous shade of blue, at the centre of his catwalk.
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Roberto Cavalli SS15: Look 1
After the intro, of a radio tuning between stations as the car roared down the highway, the show and a collection only Cavalli could do – printed snake, tanks, tunics, leather trousers and dress scarves catching the breeze. Who was in the front row, as Aerosmith’s Love In An Elevator blared from the sound system? Steven Tyler. Of course.
The fashion plane took off, by the way. The show(s) must go on.
Check out our roundups of Milan days one, two and three plus London and Paris.