Etro SS14: Back to boho

Veronika Etro sailed back to her bohemian best for SS14, sending out a parade of summertime girls with salty hair and sun-sheeny skin, dressed in a glorious array of billowing patterned silks straight out of the Etro archives. The designer had discovered a collection of books belonging to her mother Costanza, who'd painstakingly covered them in paisley printed Etro silks. So the colours were bleached as if by extended exposure to the sun: sunset terracotta, golden sand and hot shallow watery blue. And there was the yellow of the sun itself - a curious vivid hue only Etro could dream up. The clothes were for the jet set - high neck handkerchief maxis with naked backs, or languid pyjama suits accessorised with rustic silver picked-up-on-her-travels belts or fringed scarves. It was breezy and beautiful, and the best expression of Etro DNA we've seen in a while.