Bottega Veneta: Fall 2012 Ready-to-Wear

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Fashion s in a dark mood right now

and that dovetails perfectly

with Tomas Maier s own preoccupations.

Today s Bottega Veneta show was a perfect blend

of form, structure, and film noir.

[Interviewer] So you talk about tridimensional,

which presumably is three dimensional

and I thought the staging really emphasized that.

Yeah, I mean this change

is a change of runway and to have

a bag clip box and all of that was about the emphasizing

the silhouette, cause it s very very shaped

and the material is very dense

and I sort of thought it was very important

because the same time you have a body that is very

revealed and yet it is like inapproachable.

It s great to see tailoring

from the opening coat dresses were so great,

the little suits but it wasn t uptight.

I loved it what he did with the knits.

I thought that was the way he showed the knits

first with those sort of cropped pants

but, with the little peplum pillowy thing,

that was popping out.

I kinda thought that was pretty too,

cause it softened up all that sharp lines.

Tomas Maier has really

got to the essence of that collection.

It s cut precisely the way it needs to be.

I love the fact that he took his, a little bit of sparkle

in his embroidery and he just strategically placed it,

so things weren t flashy,

they were elegant in his signature.

It s been a very dark season,

but he did it really so chicly and so sadly in a way.

Very severe, kind of gothic undercurrent, which I like.

The dark I like because it s nice

to outline the silhouette.

Must remind you also of like Lillian Bassman s pictures.

That tiny little hat and that body,

that is like so narrow and closely designed.

My favorite dress is that devore

cut-out flocked velvet, flowers on a dress,

that was like a rose gray cap sleeve,

that was quite three dimensional it was, bing.

It kinda popped off the dress.

For me it s very interesting

always to enhance the body.

Be a little bit surprising and you know to like,

seems that it s not so expected.

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