So the closing ceremony "fashion extravaganza" we were promised (the day after the London Olympics opening ceremony...) finally arrived last night when a group of models were given the honour of walking down the stadium runway recreating the moods of the gold-themed photo shoot featured in Vogue UK’s September issue.
Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell were both in Alexander McQueen (and were both equally criticised on Twitter, the former for her drug use and the latter for her phone hurling habit, unreconciliable trends in a major sport event...), Lily Cole was in Erdem, Karen Elson in Burberry, Lily Donaldson in Vivienne Westwood, Georgia May Jagger in Victoria Beckham (why her you wonder, given that her stuff is not even produced in the UK? Clever PR exercise or mere ignorance of British fashion history? The doubt remains...), Jourdan Dunn in Jonathan Saunders accessorised with a Stephen Jones headdress and accompanied by David Gandy in a Paul Smith suit and Stella Tennant in Christopher Kane.
In fact the more I looked at Tennant's gold, silver and bronze chain-mail two piece characterised by a motif reproducing the Union Jack, the more I thought about Gianni Versace's oroton, the Medieval knights-inspired metal mesh that can be draped, dyed or printed that the Italian designer developed in 1982 together with Friedrich Münch’s atelier (by the way, some examples of oroton dresses are also part of the collection of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum).
In a way, given all his connections with Versace, you wouldn't be surprised if the suit was made in this material.
So, enlighten us, Chris, was that oroton? Because if it was, some of that cool British fashion was originally made in Italy...
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