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TAKING the opulence out of Roberto Cavalli is a courageous move. This, after all, is the brand of the bold and the beautiful - from Italian aristocrats to Texan oil wives and they know what they like.

It was, nonetheless, what Paul Surridge did in his debut collection for the Seventies house on Friday afternoon, in a loudly pared-down collection that made his intentions perfectly clear: his direction for Cavalli couldn’t be further from the decadent la dolce vita lavishness of his short-lived predecessor Peter Dundas, and that must have been what the bosses asked for.

November 14, 2017