Minimalism is not a word that's dear to Roberto Cavalli. This is a designer who is much more at home in a pair of Baroque-embossed leather pants and a python-printed silk shirt, than he is in a pinstripe suit. Unsurprisingly, his men's collection for winter fell like a ripe, forbidden apple, right from the tree. Though tidy sartorialism is making big waves across Milan, Cavalli did not dawdle in boring buttoned-up clothes. He went right for rocker boys with tribal headbands and loads of animal skins. Though the mood was wild and nomadic, as if a rock star were on a lonely, stoned mountain sabbatical, the materials were intellectually highbrow. It's no easy feat to make a jacquard coat where the herringbone fades into a sassy zebra print, or a leather biker jacket covered in animal striped studs and make it look convincing. But if anyone can do it, Cavalli can.
Photography: Anna Stokland/Jason Lloyd-Evans
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