Bottega Veneta was a “bright spot” for Kering in the third quarter, its recent earnings report revealed. Not being an analyst, I’d reckon that its success is down at least in part to the personal touch that Matthieu Blazy brings to his work for the label. For this resort collection, that meant, a shirt embroidered with a mermaid, a reference, I think, to the movie Splash, which he was talking about backstage last month; a bag jacquarded with the Rialto bridge in Venice, a city with a lot of resonance for him; and an homage to the late Gaetano Pesce, with whom he worked, in the form of fish-shaped scarves. And that’s just the start. The collection, Blazy said, “was about, how can we put things together and when it comes to the individual ingredients, does it make your heart beat?” See all the pictures. |
