GAETANONAVARRA ICON GENDERLESS SS2024      KNITWEAR TO WEAR
8 June 2023. Pret à porter in knitwear for Gaetano Navarra's SS24 which takes up and updates, thanks to the use of new technologies, those iconic garments brought to the catwalk in the 1992 fashion show which marked an important stage in the history of the brand. Those creations, worn by the top models of the time - Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Karen Mulder and Yasmeen Ghauri, who was on several occasions the face of the brand's campaigns - become the passport to a new idea of style that does not ignore what has been and which eschews labels, with a no gender approach in many of the items proposed.
Starting from the vichy print, in its white and light blue variant, on the shiny and opaque stretch viscose that gives three-dimensionality to the jacquard, up to the classic stripes from which cropped tops, the true protagonists of the collection, and micro dresses come to life. And again, the casual approach is essential but reinterpreted in stretch knits and declined in trousers, miniskirts and shorts.
Passione marinore in red and white, with the stripe that is broken down, widened, made oblique, and stops on flared and high-waisted trousers; invents a mix of large and small stripes on mini dresses combined with oversized kimonos with maxi padded straps; arrives at the “Linda” skirt, worn then by Evangelista and made today in maxi herringbone with a dizzying side slit.
The artistic inspiration of the collection comes from Ettore Sottsass's glass which is reflected in the exaltation of color on sinuous dresses, micro tops, minis in hyper-shiny viscose, following a pale palette contrasting with olive green, nude, onion and tobacco. To be worn, rigorously, with the famous ribbed sweaters in opaque viscose with laces and stays that open on the back or reveal the décolleté.
There is room for total white with Swarovski for the long dresses, the maxi ribbed sweaters with cuts, the knotted jumpsuits, the dresses with halter necks and the original shorts that mimic underwear, to be worn with bravado. But also for the absolute black with its black knit, a process that gives the shirt both an unprecedented tulle effect on the long dresses with maxi straps and dizzying necklines on the back, and on the over-sized jumpsuits, and a perforated workmanship typical of the sweaters of the 90, in which femininity is enhanced by the play of transparencies and bare skin on long skirts, cropped pullovers, micro dresses and skirts with oblique cuts.
The Gaetano Navarra Icon Genderless SS24 collection will be distributed worldwide from the Guffanti showroom in Milan.