Milan Fashion Week: Etro

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• Date: Feb 22,2008

Veronica Etro, the young hippie of the family textiles firm, evoked the spirit of wanderlust and the wilderness in her Etro collection.

Blanket and totem prints featured on snugly, wraparound coats, fitted jackets and sheepskins.

Waistcoats came in a woodsy leaf-print and paisley mixes in ruby, black, burgundy and purple, which were used for body-conscious spencer’s and military-look jackets with full skirts.

The collection featured, in fact, some of the shortest skirts we have seen this season in Milan, in contrast to the over-the-knee lengths, which have been seen elsewhere in ra-ra, puffball, skating and bubble shapes.

But she compensated for the lack of coverage with fancy, thigh-high boots and with the occasional, tightly-wrapped, long sarong skirt in an eclectic tribal pattern or a rise-and-fall hemline, patterned with earth-tone stripes, generally worn with a shaggy Mongolian goat vest or a corset over a striped knit.

The finale scene, appropriate to the snowscape at the back of the catwalk came in all-white, with woolly fringed shawls, sheepskins, chunky-knit vests, long cardigans and wraparound cloak-coats teamed with distressed lace skirts. /telegraph.co.uk