February 26, 2016 |
The backdrop at Max Mara was a Kurt Schwitters-ish decoupage; the clothes were louche loungewear and tarnished sequins. On the soundtrack, Marlene Dietrich crooned and asked where her man was. That was the set-up for Max Mara’s winter show, with barely a camel coat in sight. Okay there were a few, but more often camel was ditched for humbug stripes in blue and green, or a neat tramline-straight slate grey wool that Dietrich would have no qualms about sporting. The twenties and thirties were the inspiration, although I’m not sure if ladies would have got away with sporting little bar fishnets and a casentino wool romper even in the liberated days of the Weimar Republic. They could do now, though – and when it looks this good they no doubt will. We’re gaga for Dada.
Photographs by Jason Lloyd-Evans
