This fantastic Antonio Marras collection was built around an imagined letter — imagined by Patrizia, Antonio’s wife — sent from Modigliani later in life to an old friend who had shared that time in Sardinia.
The models came down from the store, then crossed one another’s path again and again as they made their way around the studio. At first the photographers howled at each obscured shot, but after five minutes or so, they gave up. To cap this, a troupe of actors was reading Modigliani’s “letter” in increasingly melodramatic tones as the show went on. By the end of it they were running around clutching coupes of Prosecco and roaring with memories of the imagined good old days. As well as a tolerance for histrionics, one needs both patience and a pre-Instagram attention span to get into Marras, but the clothes that emerge from his and Patrizia’s huge and curious conceptual spin cycle of Sardinia-seeped bohemian mythologizing are well worth that price of entry.