MILAN (AP) — High mannequin Irina Shayk injected buzz into Georgian designer David Koma’s debut as Blumarine’s inventive director, opening the Fall-Winter 2025-26 preview present throughout Milan Style Week on Thursday in a mood-setting, sharply executed, shearling-trimmed coat.
For her second flip, Shayk wore a slinky sheer gown with a deep slit underneath an identical Navy blue shearling fur. In two appears, she encompassed each the fashionable, structural tailoring that Kona is greatest recognized for, and Blumarine’s romantic feminism.
Kona known as the stress between the 2 vogue poles “dark romanticism.”
“The thought of darkish romanticism actually felt right for this time that we live,’’ Koma stated backstage.
In that vein, the gathering’s primary motif, the thistle, represents the duality of “protecting, however fragile; delicate, however aggressive,’’ Koma stated. It’s seen as a crystal applique on denims, and as silver baubles that rustle on clothes.
The structured clothes contrasted with romantic appears in organza, chiffon and Georgette, set off by fashionable corsets, silver {hardware} and panties with the Blumarine brand written in crystals.
Koma stated his darkish romanticism comes “with a ravishing, glad ending,’’ Koma stated. “As a result of with Blumarine, the femininity, the sweetness, the happiness, it’s within the core of the model.’’
