Prêt-à-porter A/I 1995-96
Look n. 51

• Collection: Prêt-à-porter
• Season: Autunno/Inverno
• Year: 1995
• Subject: Donna
• Runway Look No.: 51

“Libellula” shirt. Bodysuit shirt with a left-side zip opening, in sheer white stretch tulle, featuring a low, flat band neckline and cuffless, radical-construction funnel sleeves with an inside opening from armfolds all the way to the end. Shawl collar down to waist with twenty-one handsewn darts at one, creating a horizontal rib effect and making lifting/turning the collar wonderfully easy. Lightness, simplicity, and transparency are the key concepts behind this design. Nevertheless, in the details, the sense of lightness comes alive very much: the fluid sleeves with slits for the arms have the beauty and delicacy of fluttering dragonfly wings, while the richly ribbed collar stands up in the 16th-century Florentine Medici style.