QUIRA | FALL WINTER 2022 – 2023 COLLECTION AT MILAN FASHION WEEK
Tightly edited and highly instinctive, the Quira lexicon continues to unfold. The elements that compose it grow but the total sum stays as possibilities multiply.
An idea of future collectibles is affirmed through items that are pure in design yet unexpected, meant to be assembled, adapted, reconfigured and cherished in personal ways.
The repertoire includes double breasted coats and blazers, crombies, kimono coats, shirtjackets and jackets shaped by pintucks, rounded and gathered bombers, draped skirts with buttoned panels, boilersuits, slouchy trousers and siren skirts, shirts buttoned on the back, knitted dresses, rethought twinsets, turtlenecks, slashed scarves.
Texture and decoration enter the code, igniting more instinctive reactions in the way items can be used. Brushed wool jacquard, brushed alpaca fur, textured double-faced wool, felted wool, kidassia, ponyskin, oversize pinstripe washed wood, floating ribbons jacquard expand a thoughtful recollection of double wool, tailored crepe, pinstripe tailoring wool, bonded wool, compact recycled flannel, yarn dyed poly wool, extralight kid mohair, technical drill. The opacity of workwear cotton, organic cotton poplin, striped cotton poplin, wool cotton extralight twill dialogue with the luminosity of washed crepe de chine, fluid tela, wool fine rib, light wool jersey.
Knitwear augments both texture and possibilities, in mellable shapes: striped chunky mohair, handmade jumbo ruffles, sparkling fur, brushed mouline cardigan rib, shetland dolce, dry merino, fine merino, extra fine cashmere silk rib, micro argyle.
The palette features natural tones of optical and off white, banana, vanilla and brown sugar, austere notes of concrete, navy blue, beluga and black, touches of malibu and cornflower blue and heated accents of rhubarb, pompeiano red, tangerine and burn henna. Colors are grouped in shades, each one highlighting one piece in the instinctive layerings of elements, which are accessorized with massive wooden platforms, utilitilitiarian boots, clogs, toffee bags and oversized totes, and felt hats with a spongy brim developed with Scha.
A collection that is militant in playfulness, distorted in the take on classics, utterly individual all around.
About Quira
QUIRA, an independent brand founded by Veronica Leoni that made its debut in September 2021 during the Milan Fashion Week. Quira is a project of minimal style and tailoring influences that includes a vast portfolio of items contextualizing the style of the designer. Her visual references are born in Rome, where Veronica Leoni grew up, where she studied literature and
where she naturally absorbed the harmonic chaos of a city parading the most transversal artistic codes. Then comes London, where she gets to know and play with the codes of contemporaneity and avant-garde.
Her aesthetic research comes from a fine tuning between these two suggestions, as different as complementary. Her professional path led her to take on the role of head-designer of knitwear alongside Jil Sander and then, for four years, of head-designer of the Céline pre-collection, under the creative direction of Phoebe Philo. She is currently womenswear creative director of 2 Moncler 1952. Quira is her solo debut. The name is that of her seamstress grandmother, Quirina, once again a tribute to her roots, to a family bond, to the sartorial attention that is a distinctive trait in every Veronica Leoni item.
Photo Credits:
Photo: Paul Kooiker / courtesy of Quira
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