Roberto Cavalli Fall Winter 2016/17 Men’s Collection

Roberto Cavalli Fall Winter 2016/17 Men’s Collection “Real Opulence” In his first menswear collection for Roberto Cavalli creative director Peter Dundas establishes a blueprint for the new Cavalli man, proposing a wardrobe for the twenty-first century dandy. The fall 2016 collection is the first step inside his wardrobe - a mix, a melange, a melding of casual and tailored elements, juxtaposing the precious and the everyday. The collection is infused with the freedom of the late sixties and early seventies: sensual, sexual, decadent. Exploring the symbiosis between Cavalli and the wardrobe of the world’s greatest rock stars, Peter Dundas references his musical heroes: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, George Harrison, Gram Parsons and Serge Gainsbourg. The fall 2016 Cavalli man is presented as a rock icon, his masculinity made even more potent by the touches of femininity in his attire. The mood is of bohemia. The collection riffs on a new Cavalli menswear vernacular, pulling archetypal pieces from the archives, but reinvigorating them with a contemporary energy. Animal prints, intricately worked fur, exotics and leather, embroideries inspired by the orient and India, decoration in abundance. All are present, endlessly mixed, but given the nonchalant The palette is muted: bitter chocolate and rust, dusty rose, sepia and tobacco, embedded with jewel tones: ameythst, emerald and ruby. Dark tweeds are threaded with peridot green and kingfisher blue, contrasted with