Cosmic dancers

Roberto Cavalli channels glam-rock romanticism for its FW16 campaign
By Alex James Taylor | Fashion | 29 June 2016

When Norwegian designer Peter Dundas joined Roberto Cavalli as creative designer in March 2015, he brought with him that opulent bohemian aesthetic he articulates with such panache.

In his recently dropped Tim Walker-shot FW16 campaign, Dundas serves up a hot slice of that signature seventies romanticism. Allowed to glimmer against a minimal backdrop, the FW16 collection is the ultimate glam-rock wardrobe and here it comes presented via Dundas’ own supergroup, fronted by models Adwoa Aboah, Odette Pavlova, Marjan Jonkman, Lia Pavlova, Erik van Gils, Logan Flatte and Benji Staker.

Mixing womenswear and menswear, the images are reminiscent of that iconic scene in Performance (1970) featuring Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg and Michèle Breton in bed together, their limbs entwined in androgynous harmony – and you can totally imagine Dundas’ decadent pieces draped about Turner’s (Jagger’s character) beatnik Notting Hill pad.

So light those incense sticks, drop the needle on the Stones’ Their Satanic Majesties Request and pull those rich purple velvet curtains, here’s a wardrobe fit for purpose.

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