Angela Missoni had a long, lovely family-filled summer vacation she reported at a preview of her Spring collection, and during it she saw a lot: “A lot, a lot. So much, that I only wanted to see very simple things as a result.” Missoni was not that far out of step with Miuccia Prada, who, as she told Sarah Mower earlier this week, had chosen this season and all its myriad economic, environmental, and cultural woes as a time to “take care of now, the present.” So, the moment calls for a breather, or so says two matriarchs of Italian fashion. In Missoni’s telling, that makes Spring a moment for paring back your wardrobe. The only problem there being, of course, that while the house is many things—a historic purveyor of knits, the originator of the iconic zigzag—it is most definitely not minimal. Not now, not ever. So what’s a designer to do?
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