02-02-2022: gthe palindrome date is a whole program. For theFall Winter 2022/2023 Versace in fact, it points to a man 2.0. The protagonist of the show staged digitally with a video, separating himself from women’s ready-to-wear for the first time after four seasons of co-ed fashion shows. A return to the foreground in a short film that identifies the thousand faces of modern masculinity.
Versace Winter 2022, farewell to the co-ed
Donatella Versace launches a new format, on the second day of the second month of the year at 2 pm, to propose a new menswear. With the creative direction of Kevin Tekinel And Charles Leviathe video of the digital show, out of the timing of the canonical men’s lines – the men’s fashion week was staged as usual in January – marks a change of course compared to February 2020when the Maison had decided to show mixed collections inside Milan Women’s Fashion (the next women’s collection will be unveiled regularly during the Milan fashion week in February).
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To open the micro film, a naked and crouching man. Which is unleashed and awakens to the rhythm of dance Attitude with his companions and draws a maxi Medusa. She undresses, transforms, dresses, rotates like the maxi ball she holds in her hands, plays magic, reads. And finally, the micro appearance of Donatella: Do you have got the attitude?
Evolution, diversity, energy, color
The characteristics of the men’s clothing of the Capri Holdings Maison, as multiple as a kaleidoscope, progressive and based on the new generations, with an eye to the incomparable style à la Gianni Versace. “This collection represents moving forward, not focusing on the individual but on multiplicity, progress and diversity, exactly what I see appreciated by new men and the different ways in which they express their fresh masculinity” explains Donatella. The tailoring blends with the different codes of streetwear and sportswear, and the reference is precisely to the roots of the Versace man, to that first collection launched for him by the designer in 1978, still so surprisingly current.
A look by Versace Men FW22 / 23 (Photo: Imaxtree).
The starting point, the silhouettes of the illustrator Werner Berskotter in the 90s. Versace Man 2.0 Fall Winter 2022/2023: fluid suits where the classic blazer is replaced by three-quarter overcoats and jacquard cardigans, just as the Gen Z. The eighties paninaro bomber jacket, revisited in shiny nylon, with a collar and applications of ton sur ton or shearling crystals, to be worn even in the evening, is a must. Key piece, the leather biker jacket, cornerstone of the transformist look of the very young. And then, the research on patern and colors: the Barocco print and the La Greca monogram are rewritten in a stencil and allover version, and the colors take over in sophisticated color blocks that mix orange, coral, bright pink, cherry, cyan blue.
Focus on jewelry and accessories
Accessories, the new protagonists of the outfit for him according to Versace Fall Winter 2022/2023: from key holder chain that embellishes the high-waisted trousers with pleats at the golden masksgive her clutch bag by hand solid to maxi bags, from Texan belts at necklaces with pearl pendantsand – jewels for him, the strongest man trend of 2022, as demonstrated by the male guests of Sanremo. On the feet, the maxi chunky amphibians Column and sneakers Odyssey.
A cheeky glamorluxurious in fabrics and cuts, but extremely wearable. The Manifesto of the new aptitude? The white t-shirt which just reads Versace in the classic lettering, in a very measured size just below the neckline.
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