The breakthrough leather tank top and leather jeans of Blazy’s season one bookended the show. The debate we have with the team is the idea of positive nationalism, that you can reappropriate your history in a very positive way.” “The idea was to reconnect Italy through its history.

The Boccioni statue and the Roman bronzes loaned from museums for the show were “part of the parade,” Blazy explained. It’s a place where everyone belongs,” like a parade, or Carnevale, “where there is absolutely no hierarchy.” Backstage he seemed overwhelmed, but utterly prepared, explaining that his inclination this season was to start with the street, and “the idea of the strange encounter-people that you meet in the street and they really amaze you. Just how rare a feat that is was demonstrated by the texts that started coming in as we waited for a chance to speak to the designer: “Every single look perfect.” “The variety!” “Not a second of ennui.”īlazy has launched himself to the very top of fashion in a very short amount of time.

Well, that was a knock-out! Matthieu Blazy has done it three times in a row now at Bottega Veneta-wowed us with a collection that simultaneously ups the fashion ante while also delivering real-life relatability.

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