Marni Spring/Summer 2024 Ready-To-Wear

Marni Spring/Summer 2024 Ready-To-Wear

By: Akilah Frye

Marni revealed their eccentric Spring/Summer 2024 collection at Paris Fashion Week, inspired by Creative Director Francesco Risso’s trips to Paris as a child. The show was held in a private residence that was once owned by the late Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld’s former home holds chandeliers, rustic mirrors, and a backyard plaza which turned into a dream-like landscape with tubular white inflatables serving as seats for the audience. Music was performed by a small orchestra, dressed in white, vinyl lab coats. 

“A city well suited to flaneurs like us. A city where I forgot that I first fell in love and, in being lost, found how to seek. And to a venue; the home of a witness and devotee to the most ephemeral architecture of real illusion that is fashion," said Francesco Risso. 

The audience included Erykah Badu and Usher, both known supporters of Risso’s work. Badu wore a trailing plaid cape in yellow and black and a tall polka-dotted hat, while Usher wore a red-flame, polka-dotted oversized suit. 

The show included 62 looks, starting with unique combinations of tight-fitting, ribbed tube tops. The collection then transitioned into a fusion of boxy tops, trench coats, miniskirts, and straight-cut pants. Marni is known for their distinctive textures and bright color combinations, seen later in the show through pastel colorways and bustier dresses with round crinolines, puffy miniskirts, and a skirt-suit with rounded shoulders. 

One-of-a-kind dresses were assembled of relinquished tin cans that were turned into flowers sprouting from form-fitted mini dresses. Serving as wearable floral arrangements, these gowns stole the show. 

Under the direction of Risso, Marni has evolved into a seamless mix of styles and aesthetics used to create playful, relaxed collections.

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Images sourced from Vogue.