Bottega Veneta
Designer: Tomas Maier

• “Bottega Veneta’s looks for women next winter project strength and decision.” [AP]
• “Under Tomas Maier, Bottega Veneta has blossomed into luxury fashion’s most adroit generator of understated high-design desirability. … This morning Maier presented a collection that exemplified his softly spoken philosophy.” [The Daily Telegraph]
• “Because Maier loves women and so clearly respects them as intelligent, self-posessed, strong beings, there was an approachability and believability in what he offered.” [ELLEuk.com]
• “External adornment of any kind save raffia (raffia?) was eschewed and the materials themselves were correspondingly anti-luxe and anti-bling.” [FT.com]
• “A sophisticated collection where the fabric did the talking, Bottega Veneta oozed luxury, but simply, without excess.” [i-D Online]
• “So good were the designs that the brand’s bread and butter handbags almost faded into the background.” [NOWFASHION]
• “Bottega Veneta is a big luxury brand, and as such, Mr. Maier doesn’t have the experimental latitude of a Comme des Garcons, though some of his gestures suggest that he’d like to.” [On The Runway/The New York Times]
• “A refined collection of wearable, salable, but undeniably interesting clothing.” [POPSUGAR Fashion]
• “There was no nostalgia here, this was about precision. The narrative and fantasy of last season had been replaced by lines, pleats and folds to create shapes that were challenging and conceptual.” [SHOWstudio]
• “Wool. Is there a fabric less sexy? Maybe not, but that didn’t stop Bottega Veneta’s Tomas Maier from going for it this season. Not many designers have the imagination combined with the skill to turn the plain material into something so utterly un-plain.” [Style.com]
• “This showing gave us a very stripped-down idea of Bottega Veneta, and a very architectural one at that.” [Vogue.com]
• “No longer is the Bottega girl flirting her way to success. Instead she’s planning on being a little more precise about it.” [Vogue.com UK]
• “The designer made a strong point with fabric constructions.” [WWD]