Intellectual elegance has always been Max Mara’s brand DNA. For the 2022 autumn and winter season, taking inspiration from Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, creative director Ian Griffiths transforms the common elements and colors of her work into exaggerated contrasting silhouettes on new garments. Despite the playful visual effects, the overall style still maintains that sense of calm elegance.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp was an architect, dancer, textile designer, painter, and sculptor, as well as a modernist. Her improvised costumes and the puppets in her famous work “King Stag” exude joy, vitality, and dramatic tension.
Ian Griffiths draws inspiration from the contrast between wide and narrow silhouettes throughout the collection, pairing fitted turtleneck sweaters with bell-shaped hem midi skirts, or wide-leg trousers.
In addition, there is also a look with rubber-soled knit boots paired with skinny pants.
The brand’s classic coats are, of course, the focus, whether long or short, highlighting the series’ laziness and rebelliousness; this season, a large amount of fluffy teddy bear fabric is also used, applied to waist shirts, floor-length skirts, and even shorts, now in oversized padded jackets, echoing Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s homeland perched high in the cold climate of the Alps.
