Beyond her duties as Emilio Pucci’s new creative director, Camille Miceli is adding to her résumé the role of brilliant event planner. Topping the Pucci experience she held in Capri last summer wouldn’t have been easy even for the most qualified and seasoned producer, but Miceli’s boundless, irrepressible zest for life can grind any obstacle to dust. The gift for fun-filled entertaining is certainly in her DNA.
To show her La Famiglia collection and a new see-now buy-now ski capsule made in collaboration with Fusalp, a historic French producer of technical skiwear, she had her feisty tribe traveling to St. Moritz for a weekend of effervescent festivities. “I think that in life you have to enjoy every minute, which perhaps is a cliché but it’s really my philosophy,” said the ebullient Miceli, who offered her guests two days of non-stop activities. Precious Lee, André Saraiva, Tiffany Hsu, and Blanca Miro, just to name a few, took to the slopes for ski lessons or to the forest for snowshoeing, and dined on truffle pizza at the glamorous Chesa Veglia, where they were serenaded by young Tik Tok star Delilah Bon. The glamorous Miceli posse was then ferried via a Pucci-emblazoned funicular to the top of the Corviglia, to lunch on tasty cheese raclette at the White Marmot restaurant, then danced the night away at the Pucci châlet, a ski school Pucci-fied into a club, where they enjoyed a performance by Emmanuelle, the techno DJ-chanteuse of Italove fame.
At the core of all the activities was the presentation of the Pucci x Fusalp capsule of skiwear, displayed alongside the La Famiglia collection in a pop-up at the blue-chip Andrea Caratsch art gallery, where Pucci-clad mannequins and Pucci-printed backgrounds were set out in visual dialogue with a multimedia exhibition by Swiss artist John Armleder. “I wanted to reprise the Pucci ski tradition to further emphasize the lifestyle of Pucci and its spirit of resort,” explained Miceli. The label’s founder Emilio Pucci was actually a great skier, and in 1932 he was a member of the Olympic Italian ski team; to provide a more fashionable alternative to technical skiwear, in 1947 he started designing a series of sporty garments in stretchy jersey fabric, like the Streamliner onesie; two years later he launched his fashion line in Capri.
Miceli is also a ski lover, “so for me it was just about finding the right partner with the right credentials to launch a ski capsule that fits into the new Pucci look I’m working on, while connecting it with Pucci’s heritage,” she said. She partnered with Fusalp, a ski specialist famous for chic stirrup ski pants. Fusalp “was founded in 1952, almost at the same time as the Florentine house,” underlined Mathilde Lacoste, the label’s creative director and Miceli’s collaborator on the offer.
Together they chose Fusalp’s slim-fitting, high-performing best-sellers, and reworked them à la Pucci, introducing the high-energy prints Miceli has revisited with a fresh hand-drawn feel. Comprising a slim-fit onesie and two jacket-and-pants ensembles, a padded après ski cape, knitwear, and a range of accessories (even a polycarbonate helmet received the Pucci treatment), the collection aligns the high energy of Pucci’ss swirling patterns with the slender fit of Fusalp’s technical ski wear in what looks like a beau mariage. The collection is being sold in a few selected Pucci and Fusalp boutiques, and online at Mytheresa.com, which was also a partner of the event. As for the next Miceli experience, we’re eagerly awaiting what the designer will pull out of her Pucci-printed hat.
