For those engaged with the production—and, ahem, the coverage—of both womenswear and men's, the convergence of deadlines is a fiendish alignment to negotiate. Massimo Giorgetti reported that for the first time in MSGM's short and colorful life, he has felt on top of both this summer—even with the addition of Emilio Pucci to his roster of responsibilities. Perhaps that bird's-eye perspective was gleaned from Roberto Burle Marx, the Brazilian landscape architect who was a prime inspiration for this MSGM Resort collection and who impressed Giorgetti with his equal consideration for how his designs would work on the ground and when viewed from above.
This led to the collection's marvelous, wearable macramé maps of Milan, London, and New York. Burle Marx's own drawings influenced the washed-tone and irregularly contoured patterns on organic cotton and linen iterations of Giorgetti's free-and-easy, kicky-pant-loving template, as well as MSGM innovations including a shift minidress in superlight Alcantara. Giorgetti often likes a stripe, but for Resort he took the line of inquiry into a new vein via a fascination with yarn-bombing. "It has come to Italy; in Turin, in Genoa, in Florence they cover trees, bridges, churches." His versions included striped bandage-wrap rib knits, double-strip fins that flapped down the outside leg of slouchy city track pants, and pleats whose folds disguised hidden strips of contrast color and knit. Densely kaleidoscopic yet deeply calm, this was a collection to relish inhabiting.
