A few of my favorite shows so far: Bottega Veneta, Gucci, Erin Fetherstone. Aren’t they gorgoeus? Frida Giannini at Gucci especially showed glamourous, exquisitely curated day ware. With knee-length dresses and suede thigh-high boots, narrow and flattering tailored trousers in a “pale palette of neutrals, meant she essentially had a new, quite refreshing look done and dusted” as Sarah Mower on style.com described. Giannini explained: "I've grown up. It's more mature clothes for more mature women, because that's what I am." Mower compared it to “hitting the kind of equilibrium Stella McCartney reached a couple of years back: the confidence to relax and not try too hard to be super-duper fashion-y.” The show defied the view of Gucci as an exclusively nightwear house: “Gucci ready-to-wear might have a viable life in daylight.”
And while it was not one of my favorite shows, it is wicked cool that Erin Wasson decided to show at the sixth floor of ABC Carpet & Home. Coolest store ever! Over a hundred years old, it occupies a six-floor flagship at 881 Broadway with store spaces for Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, ReGeneration and Ralph Lauren. In 2003, they began the transition to a socially responsible business, emphasizing products made from sustainable materials and serving as a launch-pad for many environmental and humanitarian causes.
But Wasson’s collection, fueled by her delft personal style, did not live up to it’s hype- as style.com put it: “the 22-look lineup was a little too long on T-shirts and corduroy cutoffs.”
