Pucci Presents Its New Fall-Winter 2022 Collection: La Piazzetta

Picture a small village, as the ones you would find in Italy. At the heart of this village is a small place, where everyone, families, and tourists alike, gather for each and every occasion, or for none at all. It’s a cheerful, heart-warming place, shaded here and there by beautiful trees, where the colourful and joyful tablecloths of the trattorias dance in the wind, embodying La Dolce Vita.

THE PUCCI FAMILY

The businesswoman trades her business suit for a lace negligee; the student in a miniskirt becomes a festival-goer; the gypset adventurer dons fabrics with an extra je-ne-sais-quoi... There is no such thing as a Pucci woman. They are a family, each with their own taste, their own style, their own touch of madness. The family in which Camille Miceli was born and raised and the one she created for herself. It’s a family that encapsulates a mix of generations, driven by a thirst for holidays, for gusto, for lightness, for joie de vivre, always in colour.

THE COLLECTION

Camille Miceli took a play on lively colours and fabrics, without compromising on comfort. For this autumn’s drops, Camille Miceli alternates short and graphic pieces for day with long and fluid for the evening. The cool, sporty look of the 90s is finished with a bohemian air. Knits and jerseys are designed to move with the body. The party trousers with disco ruffles — a tribute to the Italian singer Raffaella Carrà — are cut from elastic Lycra, borrowed from activewear. The materials developed do not wrinkle and can be easily thrown into the suitcase, the little black body conscious dress in cady terry cloth is a case in point. The stretchy, sheathing materials fit all body types and movement the make. The gold down jackets and waxed ponchos in Marmo print, make a fresh outerwear proposition and create a lively silhouette. At nightfall, sensual slip dresses with a lingerie take centre stage.

Zoom in on “La Piazzetta” and there are hidden treasures to discover. Among them —the fish— the new Pucci signature logo, round and generous in its design, appears across jewellery, buttons and zippers. A silk label featuring a hand-drawn sketch of the Faraglioni in Capri (where Emilio opened his first boutique in 1951) and Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, is a reinterpretation of the Maisons' archive version from the 1953. Embroidered and quilted, it adorns the garments like a miniature painting.

The collars, which vary in shapes and size, transform the silhouettes and allow daring new ways of wearing the garments. They can be worn as desired: high, asymmetrical and buttoned and unbuttoned, accessorised with enamelled torques.

Silk organza and raffia fringes on capes and boleros add a touch of glamour and frivolity.

ACCESSORIES

• The shoes
  

There is no in-between: either very flat, or sky-high.
If flat, then in a sporty spirit: trekking shoes become urban walking shoes, mountain boots are re-fashioned in curly Mongolian or shearling, both laced with the signature silk twill.
The heels are exaggeratedly high: extravagant printed wedges and conical heel pumps and boots, designed contrasting colors and laced with a touch of print.

• The bags
  

The caged basket “Lido”, first introduced in “La Grotta Azzurra”, returns in gold leather with a new furoshiki style lining. A quilted baguette, printed or in gold lamé leather, is carried with its enamelled coral handle.

• Jewellery
  

Flashy: fish hoop earrings, enamelled or rubber-coated torques. Discreet is not the idea this season, the pieces are loaded with symbols:  a long necklace made of glass beads and silk tassels, crafty, a wink to Tibetan prayer necklaces.

• Hats
  

A knitted bucket hat, genderless. Knits that morph into balaclavas and scarves wrapped around the head and frames the face.

THE PRINTS

Camille Miceli embraces the imperfections of the the iconic Pucci prints. A new hand-drawn process is born in through an “atelier” spirit. The Rombi print is explored in a zoomed-in version, the signature Marmo print is proposed in contrasting shades, autumnal and acidic. A leopard print, dear to Camille Miceli, and until now absent from the Pucci print library is mixed with graphic lines and curves inspired by the archives. Geometrico, born in the 1950s, adopts an aquatic palette of blues and greens. Meanwhile, Flora and Fagiano, with their floral designs, showcase their graceful lines. La Piazzetta” prints come together in one patchwork skirt, short and voluminous.