Carolina Castiglioni launched Plan C males’s alongside girls’s at this yr’s Pitti Uomo. The artsy set up was conceived with longtime collaborator Duccio Maria Gambi, a designer and sculptor who has labored with Castiglioni on the set-up of the label’s shops in Tokyo. Japan is a giant marketplace for Plan C, because the nation’s edgy aesthetic resonates with the streamlined codes Castiglioni has infused into her brainchild. “In Japan, males have been shopping for from our girls’s assortment, so I assumed it was time to present them correct consideration and a devoted supply,” she stated.
Castiglioni’s private model has been the template round which she has constructed Plan C from day one; being a fan of a sure boyishness and to classy workwear, it was quite straightforward to choose references from the label’s archive that can go well with a man’s wardrobe additionally. Uniforms and performance remained favourite key parts; tailoring with a relaxed edge, in addition to the beneficiant volumes of sporty outerwear had been proposed for each genders.
Indulging her affinity for inventive expression, the designer labored on a variety of boxy tops and tunics in white canvas, one of many assortment’s standouts. On their fronts, she reproduced a sequence of work produced from images she took of her daughter Margherita, whose infantile self-portrait scribbled at college serves because the label’s brand. Because the saying goes, the apple by no means falls removed from the tree.