Etro presented its Spring/Summer 2023 men's collection. The venue was Bocconi University, founded in Milan, Italy in 1902, with its new campus designed by SANAA. Creative Director Kean Etro's theme was "The Wild Power of Poetry." Guests were invited to the show via a poem call, reciting the collection's theme. Kean Etro's collection celebrates poetry, which realizes utopia and embodies inner chaos. Driven by emotion, the collection is crafted in a language that greedily gathers, condenses, rhythmically elevates, and sublimates delicate and sensual feelings.
There is a process of paring down and simplifying, but like composing poetry, this is done to achieve the highest expression of the work. The color palette is like a circadian rhythm that follows the flow of the day, starting with a delicate, pale, calm morning, burning in the zenith light, and sparkling in the starry night. Flowers and motifs are used abundantly, sometimes in a systematic, sometimes irregular way, like couplets or haiku, on kaftans, kimonos, souvenir jackets, blazers with obi sashes, pullovers, shirts, as well as boxing shorts, extra-long shirts, and incredibly light duster coats.
His body is revealed through the mesh, through the Sangallo cuts on T-shirts and shirts, through the sheer delicateness of silk kaftans and linen duster coats, through billowing tailored suits in crushed satin and swimming trunks paired with shirts. The flowing silhouettes are soft and adapt to movement. Rope-soled shoes and sandals negate the notion of lightness. Or he goes barefoot, connecting with the earth and taking on a tender eroticism, celebrating poetry as a utopia of "dolce far niente" (the joy of doing nothing).
There is a process of paring down and simplifying, but like composing poetry, this is done to achieve the highest expression of the work. The color palette is like a circadian rhythm that follows the flow of the day, starting with a delicate, pale, calm morning, burning in the zenith light, and sparkling in the starry night. Flowers and motifs are used abundantly, sometimes in a systematic, sometimes irregular way, like couplets or haiku, on kaftans, kimonos, souvenir jackets, blazers with obi sashes, pullovers, shirts, as well as boxing shorts, extra-long shirts, and incredibly light duster coats.
His body is revealed through the mesh, through the Sangallo cuts on T-shirts and shirts, through the sheer delicateness of silk kaftans and linen duster coats, through billowing tailored suits in crushed satin and swimming trunks paired with shirts. The flowing silhouettes are soft and adapt to movement. Rope-soled shoes and sandals negate the notion of lightness. Or he goes barefoot, connecting with the earth and taking on a tender eroticism, celebrating poetry as a utopia of "dolce far niente" (the joy of doing nothing).
