Missoni House Paint

Missoni blew away show attendees with their surprising take on color in their spring 2013 collection. Angela Missoni opened her spring 2013 with a series of all-white looks. If you were sitting in the back, all you saw was a plain silhouette. However, from the front row you could see all the vertical and horizontal paneling in each solid whit garment. The collection eventually eased into color, with white looks painted with pink and orangey ombre. Still using the dip-dyed technique, the knits took on the same ombre effect. Angela played with the same gradation of colors in Missoni’s fall 2012 collection.

The knits, as always, were the show stoppers that evening. Gorgeous open knit cardigans, bathing suit shells and frocks in springtime corals and blues. As written in the line sheet, Angela Missoni said: “An evanescent look as implacable as the refraction of light, an optical illusion, and a fluorescent beam…The silhouette is that of a Japanese ‘anime’ heroine. A creature from an animated movie who walks and moves in zero gravity wearing pure, linear pieces, enriched with precious intarsia work, that stand out in space and create their own aura…The Missoni Summer 2013 woman is transformed into a presence that radiates energy, a gentle creature who is also strong and decisive, bewitchingly inescapable: a mysterious intergalactic tourist who has landed on our planet.” I can see the Japanese influences in the Japanese Harajuku patterned baby doll dresses and the bright pinks.   The vibrant hues personally brought me back to Missoni in the 1960’s because although the famous zigzag pattern was not so prevalent, the bright pscycodelic colors were.

Secondary, sheer chiffon's and crochet ponchos layered over form-fitting maxis were the trending ensembles in Missoni's spring 2013 collection.  Missoni signature work, the knit, was patch worked and multi-textured with sequins and crystals periodically through the collection. Every one of the embellishments either added more color contract or enhanced the already existing colors in the piece. Here, the model is wrapped in a tight maxi with a small geometric pattern repeated throughout. The dress is then finished off with an organza shell with abstract designs along the bottom. Once again, to fully get the intricacies behind the garment you had to view it up close.

Missoni Spring 2013

 



Makeup also played a big part in the consistency of the collection. The colors most primary in the garments were the color palette for the makeup. Pinky-orange, neon pouts graced every model but all in different shades. Although this trend in lip paint has been around since spring 2013, Angela Missoni clearly has no problem with repeating the same styles year after year.

 

I loved the spring 2013 collection and agree with the overall color scheme. However, I would have like to see a little more variety in the hues of the colors. Because there’re so bright, it leaves little transition into the fall 2013 collection. I think that it’s more cohesive to have collections that have the same color story within the same year. The only differences in the colors should be by the tints and hues of the season. For next year I predict a more washed out version on the colors in the spring 2013 collection.