ROBERTO CAVALLI F/W 2001-2002 WOMEN’S COLLECTION

Victorian Age and Aspen Sixties: two main themes of the Roberto Cavalli 2001/2002 fall/winter collection.

Rècherchè proportions and particulars, subtle Victorian sensations. A quiet luxury, deeply private and selfishly exclusive. Exquisite techniques, at once antique and up-to-date: flame-printed leather with hand painting, magnificent lizard in meaningful expressions. Oneiric signs in sediment and Proustian form; contemporary remembrances revisiting the silhouette of Worth’s stylized English lady, emerging in a wonderful play of light pictorial cutouts. Charming mirror images, luminous feather prints on chiffon decomposing and disappearing; resurfacing in distilled, vibrant instances on vintage denim.

Aspen Sixties in a vision of pure white and precious colors, surprising virtuosic details. Fur for a leitmotif, ever soft, sumptuous, immaterial. Aristocratic lynx and vair bonding together, breaking up, turning frothy and evanescent in mix with ostrich feathers. An urge for couture, rappel à l’ordre; a cozy low-key richness coming forth caressingly in the icetone and coral cashmere suits, in the enveloping pashmina print redingote-dressing gowns with bits of damask, in the lavish geometric capes.

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