Next winter's collection maintained that rigour in the utterly precise tailoring of its dark, masculine wool jackets with matte horizontal swooshes on the hip. An often black or drably-dark collection of dresses with only subtle decorative detailing - a restrained ruffle here, a pearly flash there - undulated precisely around the bodies inside them. Mary-Janes and shoe-boots were worn over calf-socks pulled up to the same half-way point between knee and ankle where trousers ended. When there was ostentation, it was strictly disciplined - a velvet floral dress seemed to have been treated to suck the vibrancy from its palette. The one more playful moment was a joey-pouch front-only peplum. More muted than last season's wonderful riot of a collection, next winter's Bottega woman is one of utterly elegant severity.
Posted in: Autumn-Winter,Bottega Veneta,Milan Fashion Week
