WTI Magazine #35    2014 June, 18
Author : Ilaria de Leonardis for PoisonDrops      Translation by:

"Then the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field [...] And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed [...]". And then came fashion came. The sensual and sinuous snake crawls into the spring collections, becoming valuable skin and desirable retail.

Quick-change unpredictable women encounter a trend that knows no forms or styles defined, with many variations. Now is the time for all to change their skin.

Roberto Cavalli is python all-over: printed on lightweight caftans, evoked with valuable works on jackets and pants, sewed with thick threads with other reptile skins. The shades are natural beige and gray, for a sensual, free and proud woman. The clutch without edges, made of metal, are worn with chains and a big tassel.

Salvatore Ferragamo presents scaled material in a colored version on abundant trench coats, crossed mini tops and short and structured jackets. The color variations are of antique pink and pastel green, with hints of black and natural python: colors that we find in the tall or ankle boots and in the soft pouch to hold in hand. A cold-blooded adventurous woman, Trussardi's one, who draws her with a scarf around her neck and a cowboy hat. The python is printed on the scarf in shades of blue and pastel yellow, on the red at the center of the shirt dresses in a masculine cut, on transparent blouses in dark blue and on sugar paper colored long skirts.

Besides, pyton style becomes a texture on black leather, and earth colored tones on the maxi bags and thin belts: it is characterized by a stronger tone by Angelo Marani, who places it on tunics and shift dresses, pleated declined in plissé. The sunsets of the Dark Continent, with warm colors and boundless animal prints, meet the strong shades of purple and electric blue. The dresses are long and printed or short and structured, again with crawling leather inserts.

And what if the snake was not FOR the woman, but it was the woman herself? Julien McDoland seems to be inspired by an elegant and lethal woman with close-fitting and thin clothes, embellished with glittering flakes of glass and hi-tech manufacturing. A marine sensuality, almost as a nymph but poisonous and dreamlike, which looks at the dark ladies of the 40s and at the mythical figures of Cleopatra and Salome. The animal cursed by God and considered in the East as a symbol of sexuality and wisdom, tempts the modern Eva with new sin apples. And what is yours?

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