Versace Goes Sky-High For Spring 2022 With Platforms, Minis and Scarf Prints Galore
For anyone looking for that great big comeback of in-real-life runway shows to resuscitate fashion, look no further than Versace for a full on defibrillation. The Italian fashion brand held its first in-person women’s runway event for its women’s collection since February 2020, and to mark the occasion creative director Donatella Versace spared no expense, packing it full of celebrity cameo runway appearances ( Dua Lipa, for starters ) and making the fashion as big and bold as possible (if it’s possible to make Versace any more over the top). The fashion itself was a party, too, and one with a distinctive ’90s-into-Y2K direction: Underneath a giant silk canopy that resembled Versace’s signature baroque scarf motifs, models walked the runway showing off women’s and men’s looks done in the bright, slightly-futuristic pop color lens that undeniably defined the look of late ’90s fashion and music iconography. In addition to the many safety pin accents that are de rigeur again for Versa