Luna Bijl Models Versace Capsule Collection for Porter Edit November 15, 2019
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Donatella Versace superfan Jess Cartner-Morley, associate editor of The Guardian speaks passionately about Versace’s capsule collection for Net-a-Porter.
“Naomi and Kate out partying” was on Donatella Versace’s mood board for NET-A-PORTER’s exclusive party capsule with the Italian heritage brand this season. “My woman is not just a party girl, but she wants to look fabulous when the time comes to go out and have fun,” she says. “I like to mix the iconic codes of Versace with something new and unexpected.”
A dress doesn’t get any more iconically Versace than the capsule’s showstopping silver-metal mesh dress, suspended from gold jewelry straps in the house signature Greek key. The fabric – Donatella Versace calls it ‘Oroton’ – is made from links of hard metal so tiny and so delicately enmeshed that they drape over curves with the suppleness of silk (there’s a metaphor for the Versace woman for you, right there). With a body-armor toughness but an hourglass sensibility, they have been a house icon since the ’90s. Proof that they are still irresistible: the morning after Donatella floored Milan Fashion Week in September 2017, with a supermodel reunion of Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Carla Bruni, Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford, only three of the five gowns could be found in the studio. The other two, Donatella shrugged, were still “with their supermodels.”
Milan Fashion Week in September 2017, with a supermodel reunion of Carla Bruni, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Helena Christensen.
The New York Times also relives the epic September 2017 Versace celebration. The Inside Story of Donatella Versace’s Homage to Gianni: Classic Prints and Your Favorite ’90s Supermodels.
Helen Broadfoot styles model Luna Bijl here today, wearing the entire Versace capsule collection in Porter Edit November 15, 2019. Photographer Giampaolo Sgura is in the studio. Read Jess Cartner-Morley’s litany of Versace loves at Net-a-Porter.
