In the spotlight: Antony Morato

Antony Morato Fall-Winter 2013/14 collection recalls the styles that defined fashion history over

different ages.

The 60s-inspired prints and graphics remind the age of Neorealism, adding a touch of irony and a bit of nostalgia. Wide reversed jackets, long t-shirts, micro patterns and slim silhouettes make this informal and practical look perfect for daytime, thanks to the use of wrinkled fabrics, quilted-raw linens, quilted cottons, corduroy, suspenders and fur neckwear.

Antony Morato presents his very own concept of the bohemian dandy, featuring a wide range of blue colors, with little absinth-green glimpses and seductive dark prints. This snob and sophisticated look makes a broad use of iconic pieces, like tailcoats and tights, to be worn over floral or micro-pois-patterned shirts. Jacket reverses are enriched by such accessories as bow-ties, lacquered pins, and felt flowers.

Typical prints and cuts from the 70s are reshaped in a modern style through the choice of glen-plaid fabrics; pinstripes and brownish, mustard and ochre patterns enrich warm down-jackets and loose leg-tapered bottoms.

The brand brings lead and pearl-white colors back to life in order to match black and led blues inspired by Cinema Icons. This way Morato tributes a Technicolor Hollywood, thanks to a heavy use of asymmetrical buttoning, shiny canvases, metallic glows and profiled lurex bows.

And here comes the most "avant-garde" part of the collection: inspired by medieval costumes it proposes a quite punchy and modern silhouette, slanted and slim fitting. A multi-layered look is given by light knits, drapes, asymmetries and raw cuts, knit insertions, short jackets and long sweats. Felt and boiled wool, vintage fabrics and knits, shiny quilted jackets with large or wide neck and wooden frogs are the perfect choice to fight cold Winter days.

Denim gets washed and laser-treated to look super-vintage. Floral-printed and over-dyed canvases get broken and mended with dark burgundy, mustard, coffee-colored threads. This theme features a low crotch “banana-shaped” leg, ergonomic cut jeans and quilted inserts on extra skinny fits, which remind biker style.

About Antony Morato
Established in Italy in 2007 by thee young brothers Lello, Giovanni and Tania Caldarelli, Antony Morato is an International Clothing brand. The firm is driven by the idea of a “valuable for price” cross-cutting product and managed to quickly penetrate the market thanks to its ability to develop its very own stylistic language since the beginning while maintaining an always up to date approach to communications. In 2011, after just five years, distribution hits four millions units sold in almost three thousand stores worldwide, making Antony Morato one of the fastest growing players in menswear over the latest two decades. Today Antony Morato is sold in multi-brand stores over almost fifty Countries and is sold in the thirty mono-brand stores in strategic locations in Europe, Asia, South America. www.deelightbv.nl