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Go out in green. Angela Missoni’s message via her autumn/winter 13 collection was a breath of fresh green air after the severity, albeit stylish, of the Milan collections. Taking the audience back to the 90s club scene, acid green, blue and orange turned on graphic, psychedelic prints, styled with a sophisticated Missoni variant of fishnet raver tights. Cut-out panels concealed and revealed skin, the way clothes do when they fall away on the dance floor, and the flashes of colour ran throughout, POP’ing through beautifully netted, very sexy sheer-sleeved dresses and concentrated on silk pyjama trousers. Silk dressing gowns continued the sex appeal, fastened with ribbons and dropping off shoulders as the raver went to bed, or the other way around. Toying with the ‘day to night’ dressing cliché, Angela Missoni showed ‘night to night’. By breaking up the strong colours with pale grey, white and black, she kept a calm, clear head in her collection, but maintained her rebellion on these looks with white stockings and fish-netted thighs. Despite the themes, make no mistake, this was a collection that told sophistication, using sumptuous silks and skins and transferring the prints and ideas on to suits and demure overcoats for the more reserved dresser. Of all the words in the press release, “unrestrained” is the only one we’ll steal. It was.
Text: Sarah Raphael
Photography: Mitchell Sams
