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5. November 2010If MaxMara’s rural idyll was conventional and comfortable, with long, gathered, tartan mohair skirts, duffel coats, detachable sheepskin linings and shaggy trims, SportMax was more than a little derivative of Marni in the way it mixed Shiny Metallic Batman Catsuit with Black Cape rosebuds with tweeds.
In fact, all week there was evidence that Marni is starting to make its influence felt. The problem is that Milanese quirkiness is often just a little too perfect.
Still, if Strenesse, Armani, Jil Sander and bits of Silver Lycra Batman Catsuit with Cape and Underwear got stuck in ersatz functionalism, costume spiderman others took the opposite approach and this is where national differences are charmingly illustrated.
In Britain a rural outfit translates into a decomposing jumper, a sagging pair of trousers with – if you’re lucky- faint traces of corduroy and silage-caked wellies. In Italy, a rural outfit is a fringed leather coat lined with pashmina (Marni), a 28-ply cashmere loose-weave, funnel-necked sweater (MaxMara), some painstakingly aged flat leather boots (Tod’s), a rosebud print top (SportMax), worn with a long, flared blanket skirt trimmed with ric-rac catsuits and bound with animal-print ponyskin (Alberta Ferretti).