The DiSanto Shoes Spring Summer 2007 Footwear Collection continues to push the boundaries of edgy and contemporary high fashion footwear design yet still retains the classic Iltalian style for which it is renowned. DiSanto sits perfectly alongside TOD’S, Gucci, Paciotti and Prada but has a certain avant-garde edge.
Mason’s clothing line continues to attract attention. For the AW 07/08 collection, Mason’s plunges into the end of 60’s and early 70’s, presenting a dandy chic collection that takes inspiration from the Swinging London. Mason’s is influenced by this époque, the époque of crazy and intellectual artists, of reckless and endless parties, that was the cradle of the new and the modern. Nevertheless this inspiration is mixed and integrated with a politically correct military view with styles that take inspiration from the army and the aviation. The highlights of this collection are the new fabrics and the new wearability. The collection is characterized by the presence of pockets to make simple the research for the little objects we use every day. The Mason’s woman collection, also influenced by the swinging London theme, is characterized by tapered and close-fitting lines, trousers became more clean and tighter-fitting. There are a lot of sweaters and dresses and of course don’t lack the miniskirt, the symbols of the 60’s.
The mighty Italian fashion house, Prada, has announced its decision to sign up to Peta’s campaign to drive fur out of fashion. Miuccia Prada herself said that she is “bored†with real fur and announced the launch of a new line called “Fake Classicâ€. This is a truly visionary step by Prada who are showing they have the foresight to take fashion forward into a new era with other furless brands, Kenneth Cole, J.Crew, Ann Taylor, and Ralph Lauren.
In 2008 it will be 20 years since Miuccia Prada launched her first womenswear collection, but the critics of her fur-less Fall 2007 show in Milan last week were as ecstatic as ever. “Milan’s most aware designer has thrown a wrench in the fashion works,” concluded Suzy Menkes in the International Herald Tribune. “What was new? Everything … For all the weirdness of her vision [she is] light years ahead of the rest.”
