Fausto Puglisi enters the big league for SS14

It's not just any designer that has supermodels like Karolina Kurkova walking in his debut catwalk show. But Fausto Puglisi isn't just any designer, he's the Sicilian whizz kid with designs on the big time, and his collection for SS14 proved he's well on the way. Singlehandedly making maximalism cool again, his show was a highly charged display of big pouffy lantern skirts popping with palm tree sparkles; ballgown skirts in Miami Vice shades of turquoise and yellow; leather bondage bra tops and split-to-the-hip gowns that bristled with unbridled sex appeal. The big name American designers of 1990's high society provided his inspiration - Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera and the land of hope and glory that, he says, has cultivated him as a young designer more than his own country. But it's his own country without a doubt that has provided him with that high octane sizzling sex appeal. Long may it smoulder.