WTI Magazine #16    2014 Feb, 07
Author : Donatella Perrone for PoisonDrops.com      Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti

Is there a crisis? Renato Balestra replies with colors to sweep away the grayness of these times, at least from the catwalk.

But don't call it kaleidoscope, because the Master says yes to color but takes it easy, inspired by nature and one of its most colorful specimens, the Bird of Paradise, which led - with its plume - the Master's creativity towards a rainbow-collection.

Renato Balestra's entire Spring/Summer 2014 collection is represented by a bird which comes from New Guinea, that lands on a long full dress in the form of a precious embroidery or tints with its plume the sophisticated clothes, the suits, the coats and the tracksuits in green, red, orange, turquoise and violet, leaving space for the 32 looks to some dash of the Balestra blue, well-beloved by the fashion house and its clients.

Balestra dares, and alternates the issues in plain color with the innovative outfits: the precious green coat - carved on a flower motif – is worn with a violet tracksuit; the black and white striped dress inflames with a tangerine colored embroidery; while patterns of the full dress – stolen to a multicolor Eden - propose feathers and flowers.

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