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Bottega Veneta Pre-Fall 2017 (coverage by VOGUE)

MILAN,NOVEMBER 21, 2016
by NICOLE PHELPS
Tomas Maier celebrated his 15th anniversary at Bottega Venetasimultaneously with the brand’s 50th in Milan in September. It was one of the season’s most moving moments, with Maier leading a clapping, teary-eyed parade of his design studio members around the perimeter of the Accademia di Brera, a Spring collection that showcased his classy, unflashy sense of luxury (evening dresses in cotton!), and Lauren Hutton sporting a reproduction of the BV clutch she carried in American Gigolo. About two months later, Maier was in New York yesterday shooting the label’s Pre-Fall lookbook; fashion slows down for no man, not even one who just checked off a pair of major milestones.

The warehouse in Long Island City where the shoot was taking place had nothing on the historic Accademia, but Maier’s new collection comes with persuasions of its own. Take, for starters, a series of 1940s-inflected dresses in muted pastels, pieced together from a patchwork of delicate prints, or featuring embroideries like beaded starbursts at the nipped waist and nailhead studs tracing the shadow of the neckline. Each one was an understated delight. Among the fluid, floor-length evening numbers in viscose jersey, the star was a graceful black dress with encrustations of Art Deco crystals at the shoulders. That black dress and a navy smoking jacket and skirt aside, the big takeaway here was color. A double-face cashmere coat reversed from burnt orange to brilliant ochre, zesty hues that were reproduced on jacquard outerwear and knits alike, and used for sharp leather tailoring. Arrayed neatly on racks, each look was accompanied by a bag and a complementary, but not necessarily matching, shoe. The impression was one of experimentation and play, the rigors of the collection schedule notwithstanding. Woven intrecciato shoulder bags with metal chain embroideries were new standouts.