Tod’s Creative Director Alessandra Facchinetti was inspired by 15 women from the creative fields for her SS16 collection, including illustrator and model Langley Fox Hemingway who closed the show, model and art director Julia Restoin Roitfeld, filmmaker and illustrator Quentin Jones and photographer Sonia Sieff who took a series of portraits of all the muses that make up the Tod’s Band.
The look was slightly rock’n’roll keeping up with the theme but elegant at the same time. Patchwork biker jackets in soft smooth leather with occasional appliques and buckles took the centre stage, while long dresses and pleated tops, worn over a shirt, with spaghetti straps referenced the strings of a guitar.
Midi skirts from perforated studded leather and pinstripe trousers and shorts with matching shirts and jackets with floral applique both tucked in were super high-waisted and kept on by a tied belt.
Facchinetti also included a spring-themed floral print in her collection used on light coats or bomber jackets and matching trousers as well as a print of vinyl records bringing back the music influence. Cotton dresses and tops worn with leather skirts were asymmetrical exposing one shoulder as the models walked down the runway wearing heavy mascara or blue kohl.
The colour palette was predominantly monochrome with blue, silver, pastel pink and yellow and red and brown accents in the form of accessories added. The show featured a lot of accessorizing, from neck scarves, big statement earrings and other jewellery to leather bags, moccasins and Gommino loafers adorned with studs, patchwork and the new double T Tod’s logo.
by Sara Hesikova
Images courtesy of Tod’s