From the Nordic North design Gaetano Navarra paraded his models right out of the snow blizzard! Not literally but the designer sprayed the models with white dust to make them look like they just got in from a blizzard. Right from the opening of the collection Navarra jumped into this seasons big trends. Chunky knits, leather jackets and fur on everything from gloves to outerwear. In the opening section two looks really jumped out at me, both are my must have pieces for the collection. Moving into the second section Navarra shifted to a darker color palette while play with his knits and outerwear pieces. One of the standout pieces is a gray corduroy fur collar jacket. Another strong look form the second section is a dark brown knit cardigan worn with a pair of dark chocolate leather pant. I was mad about the combination of the knit cardigan paired with the lather pant. A look I did not see last season when knits took a huge jump.

In the closing section Navarra mixed the collection up by showing several looks for day rather than evening. Large portions of the pants that he showed through out the collection were velvet, one of last season’s leftover trends. While he showed a few of last seasons trends, Navarra did play with some of this seasons top trends. One trend is gloves; he incorporates driving gloves with evening looks and then fur trimmed gloves and mittens with almost every look. He even trimmed several outerwear pieces with fur. One great example is the skunk scarf worn with a long tweed overcoat. Another trend that Navarra played with are detailed dress shirts. One of these great pieces was a gray stripe dress shirt detailed with satin ribbon on the front and back to look like suspenders and trimming the sleeve cuff.

While I fell in love with Navarra’s knit and leather pant look. The two must have pieces form the collection are two of the unique pieces from the collection. First is the v-neck cashmere argyle sweater. The argyle design is incomplete giving us a modern take on a classic design. The other must have piece is the dark olive green wool cropped p-coat. The front of the jacket is embellished with a Nordic design done in black beading palettes. On a side note I was little confused with why Navarra insisted on having disco balls scattered on the ground of the runway. The balls didn’t compliment the collection or the Baroque style space. While I found many great pieces in the collection one of the biggest disappointments is all of the tapered leg pants used throughout the collection and all of the velvet. It would have been nice to see the pants be more relaxed, I would like to have also seen more embellishment in the designs.

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