In a fashion moment that has come to Missoni I think they're answering the call superbly. Devolving power down to the younger generation of the Missoni clan has a lot to do with that. The label's never been cooler.
I liked the way here they started out with the candy palette of fall but then gradually ratcheted up the saturation and arrived at rich deep brights. The 'craft' aspect of a Missoni knit of old can leave the garment, whilst colourful, feeling a little insipid, muddy. But the psychedelic zing of the new Missoni freshens the brand up no end and answers the call for boldness.
I'm not sure I agree with Brittany Adams's analysis. Ok there are some nods to a 20's silhouette here but I don't see it as quite so one-dimensional as she would have us believe. There's plenty of 60's pyschedelia here, which was of course revisited in the early 90's. There's still a feel of a very chic festival look here. This collection stands on the shoulders of the excellent fall offering and marks a progression rather than a departure.
And if you must, still, take retro influences, no better thing right now than to mash 20s/60s/90s. Those decades where there was youthful radicalism, hope, regeneration. It's a kind of deconstruction of the backward looking sentimentality of so much retro-retro, the cynicism of PoMo. Collapsing PoMo and retro in on itself towards a new dawn. Perhaps.
