Venturini sent her models down a raised runway shaped like a double-F and bathed them in a dusty light that felt as tactile as the fabrics she called precious. “We know that people will now buy less but better, so I wanted to concentrate on really beautiful fabrics,” she explained, listing her choices of soft cashmeres and wools paired with silks and shearling. “Anything that has a sensuality.” The preciousness was underlined by hints of romanticism: little flower corsages, transparent knee-high socks, knitted ruffs, and pearl necklaces. If it hinted at a neo-dandyism, it wouldn’t be so strange. A quest for “uninterrupted sublimity”, as Baudelaire put it, is always a reaction to its opposite. Such as lockdown dressing. “We have to fight, in a way, against the conditions,” Venturini said, referring not to Covid restrictions but the wardrobe they’ve spawned. “I don’t want to lose the beauty of celebrating occasions. Maybe we have less, but we have more to celebrate.”
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