Textures were the focus of Gabriele Colangelo’s Fall collection
On Gabriele Colangelo's moodboard backstage, swaths of fringed fabrics, laser-cut leathers and alpaca yarns achieved what looked like a mosaic. Actually, there was nothing else in sight, no carefully pasted tableaux referencing some cutting-edge, obscure design movement; just an artistic composition of quite unusual fabric samples. “Textiles are what I like most,” declared the designer. “And clarity of shapes, purity of volumes.” It sounded like an honest manifesto.