Vaccarello’s collection was logo all the way: the show opened with an ‘Anthony Vaccarello spring/summer 2015’ t-shirt styled under one of the designer’s typical asymmetrical leather skirt suits. This was followed throughout by maxi-close-ups of those same words on dresses and tops; mainly the A, which will surely be a hit with anyone carrying that initial. How’s about a two-tone, asymmetrical, studded halter neck ‘A’ mini dress, Ms Wintour?
The blown up letter motifs couldn’t help but remind some of us of the blown-up Greco print Vaccarello’s new boss at Versus showed in her mainline collection last Friday in Milan, but great minds – as they say – think alike. Perhaps Vaccarello felt like he had to be more visual in his branding, in a collection that actually seemed to add a new dimension of garments (or rather, a lot more of them) to the designer’s scantily clad universe. An oversized nautical striped blazer, for instance – a women’s weekly would dub it a ‘boyfriend blazer’, no doubt – was a welcome breath of something slightly more mannish on the Vaccarello runway, which didn’t make things any less sexy.
“Can’t do it without you,” Caribou sang on the Tale Of Us and Mano Le Tough remix of his song on the soundtrack as models walked through the Cité de la Mode et du Design with the Seine as their backdrop. And after the year Vaccarello has had, you could dedicate the words to anything or anyone from those mini-dresses that have catapulted him into fame, to Donatella Versace, to his ever-growing, trusty fan base, who’ll soon be parading their A around town.
Credits
Text Anders Christian Madsen
Photography Mitchell Sams