L’Officiel Malaysia – July 2019

L’Ofciel Living

VERSACE

While Milan Design Week was definitely not under-endowed with throwback

collectables with designers picking up elements that alluded to brand legacies, no

one was quite as focused as Versace. Even with diverse collections in its register,

the brand managed to ground its roster—with Medusa. Traces of the ancient Greek

mythological figure could be found (almost) everywhere. There were the gold-toned

Medusa-shaped legs on the Technicolor Baroque sofa (Rhapsody line); metal Medusa

embellishments on the leather armchairs (Logomania range); three-dimensional

Medusa motif on the laminated glass cube (Pop Medusa collection) and many more.

All these novelties were propped against fancy, candy-coloured sets by American

interior designer Sasha Bikoff—one of the collaborators handpicked by Versace for

this edition. Canadian artist Andy Dixon, conversely, flew out his Look at This Stuff Isn’t

It Neat exhibition from New York and tweaked his installation of a hand-painted, 9x7

feet Versace shirt with two new prints.

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