The late, nice Karl Lagerfeld as soon as mentioned that if a designer performs the identical operas in his studio, likelihood is he would possibly produce the identical attire – a veiled barb at certainly one of his friends.

To organize his spring assortment for Etro, Marco de Vincenzo cranked up La Niña, an up-and-coming folks artist from Naples, who blends Neapolitan dialect with digital sounds and multi-voice harmonies.

He mentioned her sound actually received underneath his pores and skin.

“Music is inspiring. Music can push your creativeness. And once I began designing this assortment, I already knew that I might collaborate with the La Niña,” de Vincenzo mentioned backstage earlier than the present. “You will note that the rhythm of her music and the rhythm, the flux of this assortment are actually linked. You at all times take heed to music if you design, but it surely doesn’t at all times occur that music will develop into one of many substances of your present.”

Carola Moccia, the girl behind La Niña, placed on a spirited efficiency together with her band and backup singers, banging their hand drums on a stage unfold with kilims, evoking some underground membership within the ’70s and including to the wild, bohemian environment.

However along with the music, there have been too many different substances – fringe, metallic studs, ruffles, glass beading and an avalanche of home prints and metallic brocades – including as much as an overcharged assortment.

Amid the cacophony, there have been some feisty flounce skirts with facet slits, cool denims faintly etched with Etro patterns, and a few sensational, densely embellished purses that will spark plainer outfits.

After three years on the home, de Vincenzo mentioned he’s absolutely at peace with its legacy of maximalism and joyful self-expression by way of colour and sample. Now he simply must play with these substances at a quantity shy of blaring.