Roberto Cavalli
Designer: Roberto Cavalli

• “Roberto Cavalli was bound to be tame in comparison.” {AFP}
• “Roberto Cavalli closed the door on Milan Fashion Week with a show that had little to do with his trademark sexpot hype.” {The Associated Press}
• “For a designer known to champion a sexually flamboyant aesthetic, his was a restrained collection.” {The Daily Beast/Newsweek}
• “Ridden with lace and awash with fluttery transparent layering, Cavalli’s vision for Spring ’13 is sexy, sure, but with a lighter touch than the animal print-flooded, overt sauciness the designer is perhaps best known for.” {Daily Front Row}
• “Not that you could call white leather lace trousers minimalism exactly, but … there was a distinct stripped-backness to the proceedings.” {ELLEuk.com}
• “Cavalli got the mood spot on with this finale, a signature line collection inspired by the delicacy of Art Nouveau and targeted at slim-line women of self-assured beauty.” {Fashion Wire Daily}
• “Roberto Cavalli’s signature brand of sex appeal got cleaned up for Spring 2013 with a collection that examined dark and light–both in fabrics and in the women who wear them.” {fashionologie}
• “Compared to the raucous, sexually charged shows that the designer has shown in the past, these clothes were gentle, give or take sharp shoulders on a jacket.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “Uncharacteristically restrained. This is a designer who uses animal prints to decorate his boats, after all, so the clean dresses and suits made of layered, over-embroidered white lace that opened his show were a surprise.” {On The Runway/The New York Times}
• “He was also referring to today’s collection as ’43 paintings,’ which translated as 43 ways to frame the body of a woman. With the amount of skin on display, there wasn’t a hell of a lot to some of the ‘frames,’ but they were so masterfully constructed that the power of suggestion won out over bare-all revelation.” {Style.com}
• “You might expect Roberto Cavalli’s spring show to be a full-on cavalcade of animal print and sexy dresses with not much room for nuancing such alien fashion forces as the new covering up and big trousers. Yet, surprise: for perhaps two-thirds of the show, Cavalli showed his acquaintance with such potentially antisexy ideas as long tunics over trousers; the importance of having shirttails cover the rear; the new, stiffly wide-cut sleeve; and the mannish trouser.” {Vogue.com}
• “Dresses that hung loose and lean on the body were sexy but not too brash–those versions stepped in later–embroidered and beaded, slashed and diced into shape.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “This was Cavalli in Zen mode, framing his feral brand of sex appeal in elegance and modernity.” {WWD}