Just Can't Get Enough

If any other designer (except maybe for Miuccia) put Freja on the runway wrapped in a plastic tarp, with oven mitts on her hands, I would come at them with a bayonet. But, somehow, Consuelo Castiglioni of Marni manages to pull it off. At the Marni FW07 show, models looked as if they were wrapped in artfully folded paper bags. There were odd shapes, unflattering sacks, PVC dresses, and copious amounts of layering. But what makes it work? The sporty, slouchy layers are made mostly of rich fabrics, and combined with slightly-off, glamorous accessories, while worn with a sense of whimsy, entitlement, and irreverence.