For Paolina Russo, the sky is the limit – as the show’s opening performance (developed in collaboration with Danish artist Esben Weile Kjær) of balloon-bound bodies clambering for the moon attested to. Continuing their exploration of coming-of-age rituals, as shaped by suburban life, the set was designed as a sort of prehistoric cul-de-sac, hemmed in by monoliths and around which the models circumambulated (or writhed with the handmade balloons resembling ancient cave drawings).
Within their mythical world, the designers’ optical knitwear continues to take centre stage, crafted this season in a wintry palette inspired by the prismatic magic of when light hits snow