Milano: Marni Men’s F/W 2014-2015
collection. Marni’s loft showroom was the venue for the Men’s Fall/Winter
2014-2105 presentation. A video of the collection was shown on giant screens,
whilst press and buyers could view the collection up close in a separate
room. The collection which runs from
sport to classic, workwear to tailoring, utility to luxury, army to office is
taken apart, dissected and re-arranged in a mix that is quintessentially Marni:
dry yet soulful, precise with a certain carelessness, graphic. The result is a
comprehensive wardrobe that covers the needs and demands of daily life using
what is known and familiar in an off-kilter kind of way. Cohesion comes through
a loose sense of volume, deceptive textures, fur used as an accent.
Marni’s Consuelo and Gianni Castiglioni
photograph courtesy Marni
Marni Men’s F/W 2014-2015. The bomber and the parka are occasionally
morphed into one.
Karla Otto
Marni Men’s
F/W 2014-2015. The fur collar recurs
throughout, in and out of context, replacing the scarf to provide warmth in a
graphic way.
buyers and
press
photograph courtesy Marni
Marni Men’s F/W 2014-2015. The pillars of the masculine repertoire are
distilled to their essence in a quest for soft classicism that keeps a slightly
subcultural tingle: the tailored suit, slim and crisp, halfway between an urban
staple and a work uniform; the Crombie coat is seen in a textural vein; the trench
coat is reduced to a blueprint; the bomber and the parka are occasionally morphed
into one.
Marni Men’s F/W 2014-2015. Belgian stylist and blogger Thomas Vanden
Bogaerde and interior designer Keon Eeckhout view the printed T-shirts by French
artist Francois-Xavier Tavy-Sacley. One of the three artists from the Outsider
Art group to which Marni pays homage.
Marni Men’s F/W 2014-2015. Celebrity
food designer and consultant Corrado Calza’s petit Tarte Tatins and Cheesecakes,
just two of the delicious amuse bouches, along with mini the Gnocchi alla
Romana con Erbe we tasted.