Kean Etro would have you believe that a man can fly, at least in his imagination. There was an actual Jules Verne–like balloonist swinging backward and forward as a backdrop to Etro s latest presentation, but the true flights of fancy were to be found, as usual, on the catwalk below. The way into this show was the soundtrack, a pell-mell mash-up incorporating everything from Hendrix to "Heroes" to "Volare"—in other words, the perfect aural complement to clothes that ran a gamut from tropical-printed jams to a hopsack suit (lining and accompanying shirt in matching florals) to a sober navy blazer. (Mind you, that blazer was shown with candy-striped shorts, a hibiscus-print shirt with mint-green tie, and snakeskin spectators.)
Etro s color sense is by now unimpeachable. The needlecord suits in orange, pistachio, sky blue, and lilac would be all the proof you d need of that, but for good measure, he went on to combine an orange polo with a green plaid jacket, and trousers in an aqua paisley. The fun continued with shorts done in the Etro family s trademark paisley and paired with a white leather motocross jacket, and a military jacket in that hibiscus print (it also showed up in tweed for those of a more sober inclination).
