Next year, Angela Missoni will celebrate her 20th anniversary as the creative director of her family’s brand. The occasion inspired some self-reflection: For Pre-Fall, Missoni found herself thinking back to some of her personal Missoni milestones, and raiding the archive for update-able ideas. The result? A very snappy collection.
As Missoni explained at an appointment today, she wanted to highlight the difference between day clothes and eveningwear through the use of color. With that in mind, she kept the day looks subdued, showing collaged black-and-white stripe knits, kicky knit suits in sand tones, and a mannish gray check tinged with blue. The check was a heritage pattern from the ’70s, and Missoni also turned it out for evening in pop-colored Lurex yarns. The evening suit was a nice idea, made nicer thanks to the taut cut of the jacket and the coordinating cropped flares. There were also more emphatically glam looks for night, such as the pieces covered in translucent paillettes to create an overall luminescence, and the no-brainer V-neck dress in wave-printed Lurex jersey.
Daytime Missoni wasn’t entirely drained of color. Some of the most intriguing pieces here were the sweatshirts and shearlings embroidered in candy-hued whorls that gave a galactic effect. Elsewhere, a patchwork fur with a palette like a bowl of Skittles seemed to pay homage, at once, to the era of Missoni’s original heyday in the 1970s, and that 1990s moment of Angela Missoni’s ascension, which recalled the house’s earlier aesthetic. The vibe wasn’t vintage, however—that piece, and others here, simply made you appreciate the consistency and coherence of the Missoni look.
