The fall/winter issue of AnOther Magazine shares images from Veronica Leoni’s New, Athletic Woman for 2 Moncler 1952. The fashion story features a playful trio Giselle Gamble, Lydia Kloos and Miranda Chambers styled by Rebecca Perlmutar in ‘Monkey Business’. Photographer Janneke van der Hagen [IG] is behind the lens./ Hair by Roger Cho; makeup by Thomasin Waite

Leoni has been the Genius vision behind womenswear since 2018, adding her sophisticated design eye to the confines of the puffer-centric codes of Moncler. The adaptation required by the design-vision fence in which the Jil Sander and Philo-era Celine alum had to create was challenging at best.

She perservered and now celebrates the fact that the fall /winter 2022.23 collection contains her “favorite puffer ever”. In a word AOC must credit to Luke Leitch, Leoni’s silhouettes are typically ‘unlumpen’. Perfectly stated!

Moncler and Sustainability

On the ethical manufacturing front, AOC can’t validate Moncler’s cashmere supplier this minute. But the brand has a major presentation on animal welfare and traceability standards for its down products.

AOC is caught between a rock and hard place in this arena of ethical manufacturing.

Our contribution to sustainability in the fashion industry is to report what is being communicated to consumers, and we do accept the truth of what we are reading. Just separating the brands actively trying to improve sustainability goals vs those who don’t even mention sustainability and ethical production is a start imo.

In particular, in 2021, despite the limitations caused by the Covid-19 health emergency, 136 third-party onsite audits were carried out, assessing, in this way, all the entities in the supply chain. Where auditors found minor non-compliances, farms were required to take timely corrective action before obtaining certification. No cases of live-plucking of animals or forced-feeding were found during audits at any farm.

Much of the materials used in the fall /winter 2022.23 2 Moncler 2 1952 is Como-warehoused deadstock. Additionally, Moncler will go fur-free after the fall 2023 collection

All of these advancements and learnings with Moncler help Veronica Leoni advance her personal project QUIRA, a brand apart from Moncler, named after her grandmother, the seamstress Quirina.