Today is a bright sunny day in Milan and while that maybe an oxymoron, try the runways of Anna Molinari’s Blumarine for proof. This is where editors, buyers, bloggers and spectators unite for one sole purpose…fashion adoration! This is where the trends for next fall begin and this is where the inspirations are born for what we know as trickle down to the mass fashion brands. So, in addition to finding these exact clothes at Bergdorf Goodman, Barneys, Jeffrey, Bloomingdales and Saks Fifth Avenue, you will also be feeling their influence at stores like Zara, H&H, Forever 21 and even The Gap.
Anna Molinari reminds of an old ad campaign for Adele Simpson. The ad layout was the designer on a ladder with a 6 foot all model wearing one of her creations and the ad read “a little woman with big ideas.” Today, such a byline would be horribly politically incorrect but Blumarine is a larger than life collection that lives up to its expectation almost every season.
Girls just wanna have fun and that is exactly what they do in this collection. It is rock em sock em in your face from start to finish with very few sedate intervals, but this is a collection for the young and the young at heart…provided you have a great body. The collection has spirit and élan and style and it makes you smile from the very beginning. I cannot possibly dislike any designer who opts for leopard with almost every new collection and it always looks new and fresh.
Ms. Molinari shows off every side of a woman from her buttoned up suit style to the wildly exuberant hologram prints, hot pant looks and brightly colored furs. In a season that is so rife with black and so called winter/fall colors, this is a breeze, well more like a hurricane, of fresh air with color. Not only is it young at heart, but even the models look like they might be having fun instead of the living dead we are so accustomed to seeing these days on the catwalks.
Blumarine is one of the highlights of Milan for me as I am always hoping that it breathes life in to a usually sheep mentality of collections. Here there is no sameness other than the loyalty to the brand’s vocabulary and DNA.
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