For Spring/Summer 2022, Moschino’s Creative Director Jeremy Scott steps into a reverie that’s proper —but not exactly prim.
In reworking house founder Franco Moschino’s classic suits and separates, Scott’s imagination carries the Moschino woman to a dainty fashion pasture abounding with nostalgia and novelty.
Illustrated animal prints highlight the designer’s sartorial nursery rhyme.
Its main characters include: bears flying kites, poodles with flower crowns, happy-go-lucky seals balancing striped beach balls, and giraffes pulling trolleys chock-full of blossoms.
Scalloped edges in fauna shapes, as well as character buttons—like a tiger, a cotton-candy colored butterfly, and a skunk holding a daisy—decorate the make-believe.
There’s a “Mary Had a Little Lamb” purse, as well as a stacking wooden block clutch. “Sweet dreams,” Scott notes, “are indeed made of these.”
The fantasy, though, plays across silhouettes that are unfussy and classic.
Matching skirts-and-jackets (some with widened U-neck collars, some unfastened to show bustier bralettes beneath), babydoll coats, and knitted dresses and separates are Spring’s key silhouettes. Subtly coquettish styling—recalling 1990’s-era Fran Drescher à la The Nanny—
completes and subverts the daydream.
The collection’s conclusion depicts an embroidered menagerie.
On one dress, a three-dimensional quilted pony with a pink marabou mane leaps from the shoulder. On another, a giraffe—with a baby monkey clinging to its neck—pops up from the decollete. On a third, floppy bunny ears coyly cover the bust.
Ultimately, these are the finale ensembles to Spring’s knowing, saccharine irony.
The Ladies Who Lunch are fabulous, no doubt, but they may also sometimes see the world through rose (or baby pink)-colored glasses.