Ermanno Scervino Fashion Show SS27

A pirate’s journey on the surface, or aboard a Yellow Submarine, amidst the clean lines of the sea and the horizon and the rock-inspired dissonance of an electric guitar. And then there’s a galleon, the Bounty, Marlon and Tarita, arriving on the coast at night, when the palm trees cast shadows on the sand. The materials in the collection are weathered by the wind, hardened by salt, and faded by the sun; nappa leather takes on the colour of burnt wood, linen matting that of sails, whilst suede evokes the hues of rope. On this voyage, white is chalk, salt, sail and sea foam; blue is denim, ultramarine, surf, horizon and aquamarine; earth tones are sand, straw, gold, hemp, shell and camel. The ribbon, woven from golden or copper-coloured metallic threads, and the silk braid worked into loops adorn the uniforms of raw canvas and crocodile-embossed nappa leather. The pirate’s jacket, sturdy, yet soft and light is worn with a puffed duchesse mini-skirt, with men’s jeans, or with leather shorts. Among the figures populating this voyage, beneath the tailcoat, the sheer trench coat or the organza storm cape, a feminine creature appears, a mermaid, in a sheer knitted jumpsuit, a sculptural corset or a lace petticoat. And there is also a passenger in a starched tuxedo shirt, who, unexpectedly, is wearing a small, asymmetrical skirt gathered in on itself, almost as if the fabric had chosen, of its own accord, a different course. The new doctor’s bag, made from hand-dampened nappa leather