Tod’s Spring / Summer 2016

MILAN — There are many narrative threads that can be teased out of the Tod’s Spring / Summer 2016 runway show from Caroline Issa styling all 29 looks to the house muse Langley Fox Hemingway closing the show to a further 7 models at Next filling the ranks of this impressive casting, and yet all would be true. Add a driving, distantly remembered tune by The Durutti Column to the runway mix and the “let’s start a band” call-to-action implicit in the #TODSBAND marketing campaign is immanently plausible as well. Alessandra Facchinetti’s collection referenced bikers, rock & roll, and a sense of wild individualism that is always in style. Taking to the stage for Friday afternoon’s gig were Hedvig Palm, Vera Van Erp, Anna Cleveland, Tessa Bruinsma, Maja Salamon, Ola Rudnicka, Wangy, and of course the earlier mentioned Langley Fox, who indeed closed the show. Langley along with 14 other figures Tod’s considers emblematic of these ideals including Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Cora Corre, and others are mentioned by name in the show program (packaged to resemble a 45 or 7-inch record). Large portraits of these powerful women hanging from the lofty ceiling of the runway entrance greeted show goers. For those about to rock, Tod’s would indeed be saluting them. Credits include: Client, Tod’s; Collection, Women’s Ready-To-Wear Spring / Summer 2016; Clothing design, Alessandra Facchinetti; Styling, Caroline Issa; Hair, Eugene Souleiman; Makeup, Val Garland; Casting, Barbara Nicoli.