For Pre-Fall, Krizia’s head designer Antonio D’Anna focused on the label’s historic trademarks: geometric construction, futuristic plays on pleating and folding, and prints of wild animals. He modernized shapes and volumes, refreshing proportions, relaxing cut, and playing with lightness. What gave the collection a certain appeal were the reworked animal prints; an entire zoo of panthers, zebras, cheetahs, leopards, and Great Danes was dissolved into abstract patterns, which were visually quite impactful. They were printed on elongated knitwear tunics worn over long plissé skirts, appeared as rubberized motifs on trapeze jackets in cotton canvas, and surfaced on silk blouses wrapped at the waist with huge bows.
Krizia had its heyday in the ’80s; a distinctive feel of that era was clearly in evidence. Tailoring was one of the brand’s staples; here masculine pantsuits, once powerfully shouldered and severely cut, were softened and given more fluidity, while coats in oversize volumes were slimmed and elongated with a minimalistic approach. The primary color palette of white, black, navy, and red highlighted the streamlined attitude of the collection, which had elegant, softly architectural undertones.
