MILAN (AP) — High mannequin Irina Shayk injected buzz into Georgian designer David Koma’s debut as Blumarine’s inventive director, opening the Fall-Winter 2025-26 preview present throughout Milan Vogue Week on Thursday in a mood-setting, sharply executed, shearling-trimmed coat.
For her second flip, Shayk wore a slinky sheer costume with a deep slit underneath an identical Navy blue shearling fur. In two appears, she encompassed each the fashionable, structural tailoring that Kona is finest identified for, and Blumarine’s romantic feminism.
Kona known as the strain between the 2 style poles “dark romanticism.”
“The concept of darkish romanticism actually felt appropriate for this time that we live,’’ Koma mentioned backstage.
In that vein, the gathering’s important motif, the thistle, represents the duality of “protecting, however fragile; delicate, however aggressive,’’ Koma mentioned. It’s seen as a crystal applique on denims, and as silver baubles that rustle on clothes.
The structured clothes contrasted with romantic appears in organza, chiffon and Georgette, set off by fashionable corsets, silver {hardware} and panties with the Blumarine emblem written in crystals.
Koma mentioned his darkish romanticism comes “with an attractive, pleased ending,’’ Koma mentioned. “As a result of with Blumarine, the femininity, the wonder, the happiness, it’s within the core of the model.’’
