Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2022 Full Show

In spite of the sportswear and workwear influences, there was a lot of interest in the level of the fabric. “For me,” said Daniel Lee, “Bottega Veneta is really a house of technique.” The season’s elevating, couture-ish details came in the form of intarsias and embroideries of a Tyrone Lebon photograph of Mica Argañaraz circa spring 2020 in nothing but Bottega’s sparkly pumps—a clothes-as-canvas kind of proposition. And much of the outerwear was shot through with metal threads, which gave the anoraks and blouson jackets and the pants they were worn with the glossy colour and kinetic dimensionality of John Chamberlain’s old car sculptures. Chamberlain rejected the metaphors that were heaped on his art, but he could give as good as he got. He once said of his work, “It goes from being the waste source of one being to the life source of another.” In the glorious wreck of the Michigan Theatre, that idea resonated. For more Fashion, Beauty, Culture, and Lifestyle content: Website: https://thekolsocial.com/ App: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/kol-soc... Instagram:   / thekolsocial   Facebook:   / thekolsocial   #KOLSOCIAL #FASHION #RUNWAY