Fausto Puglisi was in Las Vegas over the weekend, dressing Ciara for an look at amfAR’s gala there. Her leopard spot slip costume was pure Roberto Cavalli, animal prints and skin-bearing déshabillé being the Italian firm’s raisons d’etre for the reason that late founder’s heyday.
Deft with the prints and textures, Puglisi is a passionate steward of the Cavalli model. He enjoys rooting round within the archives and resurrecting favourite motifs just like the Japanese kimono florals from a spring 2003 assortment seen in a trio of night seems to be for pre-fall 2026. (Originals can go for five-figures on the resale market, and he’s heard from prime fashions together with Vittoria Ceretti about reviving them.) Different occasions, he’s giving tried-and-true patterns his personal inventive spin; Ciara’s leopard spots, for instance, are adorned with voluptuous pink roses right here. Patchwork prints, in the meantime, are an everyday-ish interpretation of his personal widespread fall 2023 present, the one which discovered him in excessive glamazon mode.
Enjoying counterpoint to the kaleidoscopic patterns this season is an ivory and white bias-cut slip costume that dips precipitously low within the again. Nobody’s referred to as dibs on that but, in response to Puglisis, however could we recommend he reveals it to @vittoria?