Blumarine Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear

Mission Accomplished could be a good name for Blumarine’s spring outing. In just a couple of seasons, Nicola Brognano has flipped and twisted the label’s narrative so spectacularly into a sort of standard bearer for a Y2K renaissance that not much is left of its previous incarnation. Supermodel (such an archaic phrase, isn’t it?) Carla Bruni strutting the ’90s catwalks in Blumarine rose-embroidered skintight slip dresses—racy for that time, but rather demure if compared to today’s bare-it-all standards—seems like a distant, hazy memory. Hitting the delete button with calm determination, Brognano marches on, wrapped up in his unrequited love for a sexed-up interpretation of everything Y2K. Yet when asked backstage about his inspiration for spring, he looked at me in disbelief. “No one in particular really,” he said. He knows that what matters is inundating social media accounts with the brassy swagger of all the skimpy, hotter-than-hot pants trotting on stilettos on the catwalk today, as well as the risqué fringed and beaded bikinis barely covered by a cropped cardi trimmed in regenerated mink or crocheted in fluoro recycled poly, or the see-through chiffon cargo pants with midriff-baring matching tops in eye-popping Day Glo colors. They’ll be snatched up in no time by all the TikTokers and the Dua Lipas of this world.