Roberto Cavalli: Spring 2009 Ready-to-Wear

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[Tim] Once upon a time,

the Cavalli woman was a creature of the urban jungle.

Now she seems to be spending a lot of time in the garden.

[Eva] This woman that she plays uses seduction.

Women are very strong today.

It s a moment to go towards the men.

[Tim] Do you think women have the power?

The women have a lot of power.

I d like to have the power that the women have.

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[Eva] The clothes helps to take out your characters.

Every woman is many women,

it s never one woman, eh?

She should dress in the moment how she feels.

[Tim] What do transparent clothes mean to you?

[Eva] It means to cover,

but to show a little bit of some things.

[Tim] Subtle exposure.

[laughs] You said it.

[Amy] She s an angel in the garden now!

It s a great collection for us to look at

because it s romantic and angelic with pretty colors,

and super feminine,

and sort of a look that you can get in a different way.

This is the bandana print.

It s almost girlish.

[Eva] It s girlish,

but every woman wants to be a girl, actually.

We have lots of faience.

Faience is the porcelain.

We did it broken.

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[Tim] I always think of the Cavalli woman

in animal prints.

Now she s very sweet in flowers.

That was one of the old girls, you know, in some way.

I think that they used the evolution of it like a designer

and I think it has to be like that.

Because everybody has their own personality,

their own things, but

if you re able to just, like, succeed

with a total different look,

I think that s pretty much a talent.

[Marisa] But I think he s done a new

kind of romantic touch and very elegant,

which makes it easy, now, to wear on all occasions.

[Tim] Well, the matching purse is new.

[Eva] Yeah, we have beautiful purses.

More than purses, they are like a part of jewelry.

[Tim] Is this an old tech?

No, it s a technique actually.

It s really brand new.

It s laser but it s not just laser cut,

it s also, it s the heat of the laser,

the flowers, that gets relief.

This is more constructive.

[Tim] Is that hand painted?

It s hand painted, yeah.

[Tim] Like Florentine artisan.

[Eva] Exactly.

There s a lot of workmanship usually in our collections.

[Amy] I think he s taken the temperature

of women worldwide and he knows what women want,

and I think he s accurately shifted away

from the leopard-clad temptress

into something a little softer.

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