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Max Mara departs from quiet luxury with Marco Polo-inspired Venice show
Resort collection featured brand’s signature camel, but came with sequins, brocades and Jacquard silk
Presented in the porticos of the Palazzo Ducale overlooking St Mark’s Square, the resort collection was rich in Max Mara’s signature shade of camel but in a departure from simplicity came sequins, embellished with brocades and in shimmering Jacquard silks, evoking the lavish Fortuny fabrics famous in the lagoon, which Griffiths called “the birthplace of luxury”. Inspired by Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant who documented accounts of his travels in Mongolia, China, India and Africa, Griffiths staged the show on the 700th anniversary of his death to celebrate the city as “the creator of this gigantic global empire of trade [and] the beauty of cross-cultural contaminations between cultures you find here”. This materialised in mini embroidered shift dresses, sharp tailoring, chunky knits and open-neck shirts with sporty necklines, many of which were cinched at the waist with woven tassel belts riffing off the sartorial accessories that appear in the paintings of Venetian masters Titian and Tintoretto.
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