Everything on-point about the Moschino Spring 2022 “Ready to Wear” Collection
Now that you know about the rainy mess-up and infantile clothing
Soon after the Moschino Fashion show aired, opinions dominated the Internet. The bouffants, the lilac bunnies with giant-adorable eyes and the cow-shaped earrings brought me a memory back ౼the first time I watched the “California Girls” music video by Katy Perry; the collection somehow took me to that cradle. Jeremy Scott wanted to incorporate Nostalgia and pay homage to the New York City via the location౼Bryant Park, a historical fashion locale. The collection had me maudlin thinking about the purple wigs and bubblegum bra Katy once graced. The show would have started half an hour earlier, but the rain had other plans. The collection embraced infantilism with teddy bears, adorable ducks, and lilac elephants with giant eyes as patterns on the attires.
With Vogue stating it missed Fun and Poignancy, popular Fashion Instagram pages bawled the collection mundane. Some whimpered believing the collection infantile quite literally and nothing else, while the others weren’t ecstatic about the runway walks. But Jeremy Scott did justice to what he wanted to render౼“Baby Lady”, where buoyant cows, tigers, and elephants blended with the ensembles.
Now, do I ponder it was the crème de la crème Moschino I ever watched? Not really. Did I cringe while Gigi tried a theatrical closing? Yes. Do I believe we need more plus-size divas to amble the runways, Hell yes? Go Precious, but we need supplemental representation. Also, it would have been significant to catch sight of some Indian models sauntering along the Bryant Runway.
But that being said there were a few things that stood apart in this collection and made it a knockout for me.
1. Melanin Murders
Though Gigi opened the Moschino Spring Show, right after her “Janaye” entered with her signature strut and vibrant cyan braided hair. For me, that sophisticated yellow dress and her daggers for expression stole the show right there. And Oh dear, that walk, that damn walk had me wondering, what if she had opened the show. Later, in the show, Imaan and Mayowa demonstrated struts as dramatic as the collection; Melanin did slay on the runway for Moschino’s latest collection. With unparalleled runway flounces, models of color made the audience breathless, and promulgated that, they are the Modelling Industry.
Mayowa entered right after Imaan, now that’s what I call a double-delight.
2. Aaron Philip’s Debut
Extending representation on the runway is inscrutable. When Aaron Philip came on the runway for Moschino’s 2020 Spring Collection, tear-jerks became a norm. The mighty Moschino became the brand to debut “Aaron Philip” on the runway. The audience was all claps when she entered. This indeed was an sentimental moment, for everyone, but especially for all who saw a bit of themselves in her. Hopefully, it is the first of many.
Diversity has been initiated on the runways. However, it’s still far from its destination. Let’s hope, it is accustomed in the Industry as quickly as Moschino sells.
3. The Pastels and the Neons
Though the paramount thematic of the collection was infantile and had more of a nursery touch to it, a few outfits demonstrated elegance and if paired well౼can grace roads like the regulars. The pastels like the lilacs, blush pinks, shades of sherberts, and cerulean with child-appealing prints gave a modish look overall. Neon shade could also be spotted in the collection and was minimal, apart from the animated soft-toy pattern. Who knew, candies and soft toys could bring out sophistication?
4. The Drama
It’s Jeremy Scott, and it’s Moschino. You can’t expect humdrum here. Call it drama or tantrum, it was all synonymous with the attires in the collection. Gigi closed the show in a dramatic outfit that had a lilac-looking smiling elephant for arms. Platform heels and bumpet-hairstyle were another factors deleting prosaic from this show.
5. The Handbags and other accessories
When Moschino chooses a theme, you see it scattered everywhere. In the outfits of course, but also the toy handbags, the whimsical earrings, heart shaped buttons and sunglasses, and the footwear. Though the type of footwear varied from platform to stilettos, there was one thing consistent about them, the vibrant and playful colors, straight out of soft-toy website. Some outfits also featured matching gloves to add to the look.
Earrings resonated well with the theme too ౼ for instance, Yasmin Wijnaldum’s rocking-horse earrings, Winnie’s teddy bear ones, and Irina’s classic star-shaped ones represented some of the things what we adored the most as child౼truly an homage to the nursery.
Though it drizzled throughout, thankfully there was no accident on the runway. The collection was childish, but with a retro touch to the signature camp, for which Moschino is a provocateur. Wondering if the collection is a satire on “consumer-culture”, is meaningless because we know that’s internalized with Scott.
Do we expect divas to walk the streets of New York in the collection, well that’s still to be seen, but I would not mind Katy Perry doing a California Girl Part-2 with these ensembles, please?
