EMILIO PUCCI SPRING 2014 RTW

 JOAN SMALLS (IMG)

EMILIO PUCCI SPRING 2014

 MIJO MIHALJCIC (IMG)

ANDREEA DIACONU (IMG)

If you had any doubt that pop stars have usurped Hollywood celebrities as the be-all and end-all of the public's fascination, the proof was on Peter Dundas'Emilio Pucci runway tonight: its embrace of streetwear, its celebration of gym clothes, its extreme body confidence.  

CHIHARU OKUNUGI (WOMEN)

To us, it had Bad Girl Riri's name all over it. Dundas pointed out that he's been dressing more musicians lately. Rita Ora and Beyoncé both wore his clothes on recent tours. Clearly, the experience has energized him. 

 JOSEPHINE LE TUTOUR (ELITE)

LIYA KEBEDE (D'MANAGEMENT)

Designers up and down the runways have been at this kind of thing this season—Gucci's Frida Giannini in Milan; Alexander Wang in New York. Dundas differentiated himself by mashing up the basketball and scuba and boxing gear with Masai embroideries. 

NATALIA SIODMIAK (IMG)

A beaded bustier dress with a draped silk jersey skirt is destined to be a big hit. That was hardly the end of the beading, though. There were a tank top and track pants embroidered in gold on black net, an allover beaded hoodie emblazoned with PUCCI and the year of its birth, 1947, and long dresses made from beaded basketball mesh. It'd take a top-of-the-charts paycheck to afford any of these. 

 KASIA STRUSS (WOMEN)

OPHELIA GUILLERMAND (WOMEN)

But maybe the most interesting thing about this collection was that the sporty element wasn't only for show. 

ELISABETH ERM (WOMEN)

The parachute silk of a printed parka, the liquid silver material Dundas used for running shorts, the draped sarouel-meets-jogging pants—they were practically weightless. Naysayers will argue that Dundas has ventured too far from Emilio Pucci's born-in-Capri DNA. Really? If there is a twenty-first-century jet set, Rihanna is it. 

 DARIA STROKOUS (WOMEN)

 GRACE MAHARY (IMG)

 KATI NESCHER (WHY NOT)

 NADJA BENDER (FASHION)

 LEOMI ANDERSON (MONSTER)

 JULIA NOBIS (ELITE)

 JOSEPHINE SKRIVER (MONSTER)

 MAGDA LAGUINGE (NEXT)

 AMANDA LAINE (WHY NOT)

 BETTE FRANKE (WHY NOT)

 MARINE DELEEUW (WHY NOT)

 KATYA RIABINKINA (WOMEN)

 MAARTJE VERHOEF (WOMEN)

 MALAIKA FIRTH (WOMEN)

 SASHA LUSS (ELITE)

 LISA VERBERGHT (WOMEN)

 ANDREEA DIACONU (IMG)

 LINDSEY WIXSON (D'MANAGEMENT)

 ANNA EWERS (WOMEN)

 ELISABETH ERM (WOMEN)

 JULIA FRAUCHE (NEXT)

  DARIA STROKOUS (WOMEN)

 JULIA NOBIS (ELITE)

  KASIA STRUSS (WOMEN)

 JOAN SMALLS (IMG)

 DEVON WINDSOR (IMG)

 LIYA KEBEDE (D'MANAGEMENT)

MALGOSIA BELA (NEXT)

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EMILIO PUCCI SPRING 2012 RTW

DAGA ZIOBER (ELITE)

EMILIO PUCCI SPRING / SUMMER 2012

OTHILIA SIMON (D'MANAGEMENT)

RUBY ALDRIDGE (NEXT)

Gwyneth Paltrow killed it at the Emmys in a rib-cage-exposing black beaded top and long narrow skirt by Peter Dundas, an advance look from the Spring collection he showed tonight for Emilio Pucci. Head and shoulders above the rest of the red-carpet pabulum, it said, "I'm the movie star in the room, and the rest of you are just TV actors." Dundas has the touch.

KINGA RAJZAK (WHY NOT)

For Spring, he worked a gypsy-sexpot theme—all midriff-baring peasant tops, visible dentelle knit panties, and suggestively placed black lace insets on silk slipdresses. Over-the-top? At times. But his girls looked so smokin' hot, you'd need a heart of stone to avoid being seduced by the likes of Natasha Poly advancing brazenly toward you in a flood tide of Pucci print.

ERJONA ALA (ELITE)

For the record, the workmanship is couture-grade: an organza infanta skirt appliquéd with patchworks of archive print; a black caftan crocheted from top to fringed bottom; a long-sleeve tulle T-shirt embroidered with caviar beads in skull and heart motifs.

KARMEN PEDARU (ELITE)

If Dundas slipped up, it was with his tailoring. Not with the bra-baring jackets, which were sexy, but with the scarf-tied, full-legged Bermuda shorts, which were less so. Fans of his military-sharp blazers (plenty of them in the audience tonight) might shed a tear in their absence from the runway. But in the end, that might not matter so much. Girls who get photographed for a living and others who live to get photographed will rush to wear these clothes. That should bode well for the new Pucci flagship set to open on Madison Avenue in New York next year.

KASIA STRUSS (WOMEN)

ABBEY LEE KERSHAW (NEXT)

JOAN SMALLS ()

IZABEL GOULART (WOMEN)

GERTRUD HEGELUND ()

KATE KING (ELITE)

DARIA STROKOUS (WOMEN)

NATASHA POLY (WOMEN)

JACQUELYN JABLONSKI (ELITE)

LUISA BIANCHIN ()

VALERIJA KELAVA ()

ZUZANNA BIJOCH (NEXT)

JULIA FRAUCHE ()

SIGRID AGREN (ELITE)

LIU WEN (D'MANAGEMENT)

AYMELINE VALADE (WOMEN)

NYASHA MATONHODZE (ELITE)

ANABELA BELIKOVA (IMG)

JOURDAN DUNN (WOMEN)

MELISSA TAMMERIJN (WOMEN)

AMANDA LAINE (WHY NOT)

LUCETTE VAN BEEK (ELITE)

HANNE GABY ODIELE (ELITE)

ALANA ZIMMER (ELITE)

JOSEPHINE SKRIVER ()

ANJA RUBIK (NEXT)

SHU PEI QIN (NEXT)

ISABELI FONTANA (WOMEN)

KENDRA SPEARS (NEXT)

RUBY ALDRIDGE (NEXT)

ARIZONA MUSE (NEXT)

ABBEY LEE KERSHAW (NEXT)

TONI GARRN (WOMEN)

KARMEN PEDARU (ELITE)

DAPHNE GROENEVELD (WOMEN)

NATASHA POLY (WOMEN)

JOAN SMALLS ()

DAGA ZIOBER (ELITE)