Despite her still youthful looks, Blumarine’s Anna Molinari has a granddaughter. “She’s blonde and beautiful as a model!” Molinari chirped. “And she dresses divine! I often look at how she puts things together for inspiration; these young girls, they really do have amazing style.” Indeed. Generation Z will soon take the reins, forget millennials. The future is around the corner, and Molinari is right to keep an eye on her granddaughter’s opinionated views on fashion.
The designer’s penchant for jeunes filles en fleurs has always been at the heart of Blumarine, her love of girly frills never diminished with age. Quite the contrary; in the Pre-Fall collection, it was displayed full-on, with a whirlwind of romantic dresses, floral prints, and billowy chiffons, with a zest of London’s Biba, the magic word that makes bohemian style instantly cool.
Layered styling is required today, when boundaries between daywear and eveningwear are blurred, and collections are more and more seasonless. Here, oversize parkas, trimmed in burgundy fox to highlight the feminine factor inherent to the label, topped long, frothy lace slip dresses worn over floral pussy-bow blouses. The best of the other outerwear pieces was a dark red shearling biker printed in muted rose motifs, which also graced the chiffon dress worn underneath.
Elsewhere, Blumarine’s staples were given a dust off. Animalier motifs, a Molinari favorite, were printed on a fitted leather blazer trimmed in white mink; paired with white bell-bottoms, the jacket had a ’70s vibe that felt right. The vintage flavor, another Molinari standby, was gracefully translated into a ’20s-inspired evening dress in black chiffon embroidered in sequins. It’d probably look delightful on Molinari’s granddaughter and her posse of fashionable teenage friends—and on their mothers, too.
