Paisley you expect from Etro: after all, this Milan-based print house has been specialising in the kaleidoscopic Central Asian pattern since the 1080's.
What its womenswear designer Veronica did this morning was to artfully fuse her family's signature swirls with many of this season's emerging trends.
So there were hints of military in the drab khaki jackets with tight brown belts, an (unwitting) echo of Prada's bound-to-be influential matchy-matchy iridescently gridded trousersuits (Etro's trousers were narrower on the leg, slightly longer, and with more of a kick than Prada's), a Proenza Schouler-esque threesome of super-wide, triple-pleat pants.
Then there were the hip-emplacements, via ruffles of paisley punched black leather that ran down fitted jackets from collar to tailbone, wide pilates-friendly belts at the waist with little flying side-fins, and peplumed fitted dresses in panels of.... paisley.
What its womenswear designer Veronica did this morning was to artfully fuse her family's signature swirls with many of this season's emerging trends.
So there were hints of military in the drab khaki jackets with tight brown belts, an (unwitting) echo of Prada's bound-to-be influential matchy-matchy iridescently gridded trousersuits (Etro's trousers were narrower on the leg, slightly longer, and with more of a kick than Prada's), a Proenza Schouler-esque threesome of super-wide, triple-pleat pants.
Then there were the hip-emplacements, via ruffles of paisley punched black leather that ran down fitted jackets from collar to tailbone, wide pilates-friendly belts at the waist with little flying side-fins, and peplumed fitted dresses in panels of.... paisley.
