Bottega Veneta's 2023 pre-fall collection is in. See every look:
A few weeks ago a package arrived from Bottega Veneta. Inside was a trio of books: two dedicated to the summer 2023 collection, and a third which reproduced a scrapbook of Kate Moss images that designer Matthieu Blazy made when he was still a teenager in the late 1990s. “Kate Moss was my first Google Research,” Blazy wrote on its opening page. “This fanzine is a tribute to [her] and the pages of a binder I did back then that defined my coming of age.
All these years later, Moss still oozes a kind of insider cool. Linking your label to hers, as he did when he cast her for his summer show last September, is smart business. Really, though, what the book does effectively is show us that Blazy’s Bottega Veneta is a brand with heart.
“At the end of the day, we had a lot of pleasure just making clothes that we want to wear ourselves,” he said. “But it’s not just me. It’s the studio, and it’s the woman who works on fabric.” As it has been from his start at Bottega Veneta, material is a major preoccupation.
Blazy said the development of the collection was a reaction to what he sees as a preponderance of heavy fabrics in the market. “To build up volume, it’s easy to take a heavy fabric and sculpt; we did the opposite, we tried to lighten everything in order for people to move and not be constrained at all.
That quest for lightness doesn’t mean the clothes lacked indulgences. A bronze sequin coat is bound to feel as good to the touch as it is attractive to gaze upon. Same for a lilac crushed velvet dress with a cool zippered neckline. The ultimate indulgence may be the leather jeans woven in the house intreccio style; this season they come in a silver chrome. They’re trophies of a kind.
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