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Going all out on this season’s check fascination, Moschino flew to the newly glamorous Glasgow, spotlighting its red tartan heritage. Full look tartan trouser suits filled the catwalk with lavish gold earrings and embroidered golden hearts, worn with M emblazoned black riding hats and english rose clutches. Changing guard red dominated the palette on military jacket sleeves and block colour trousers with peplums, and the soundtrack, usually chosen to compliment a collection, changed the tone of the clothes entirely. With the regal riding tartan thing going on, the last thing we expected to hear on the stereo was a grungey Brit pop medley of Oasis’s Wonderwall, The Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony and Blur’s Girls and Boys. It turned the preppy bouncy ponytail aesthetic into a rebellion, and the kind-of-iconic image of Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions came to mind particularly during Bittersweet Symphony, implying naughty posh girls in hitched up boarding school uniforms who might look the part, but certainly don’t play by the rules. An interlude of tan fringing and brief change of colour palette to black and white concluded with a definitive block red dress. The finale track, the patriotic bagpipe number ‘Scotland the Brave’, cemented the theme in our minds, lest we got confused by Liam Gallagher along the way, and marked the end of another collection of fun fashion and colour conviction.
Text: Sarah Raphael
Photography: Mitchell Sams
