Moschino Spring/Summer 2021

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“As the world seems to be splitting along the seams, the bare inner workings of something new will be exposed.”
—Jeremy Scott, Moschino Creative Director

In short order, the world has flipped. It hasn’t capsized, but we are certainly living in the upside down, inside-out. The topsy-turvy. Everything is surreal but somehow also too real, altogether, all at once. It’s a recognizable place, but it feels foreign, alien, and admittedly, unnerving.

Yet through this paradigm a revolutionary rulebook will be written. The old manual will burn. It is burning. We won’t call it a fresh start so much as it is a new start. Inner-workings are being laid bare; how these mechanics exist and evolve will change.

In this respect, Jeremy Scott’s Moschino Spring/Summer 2021 womenswear collection takes these inner-workings — which, typically speaking, have been kept hidden and unaddressed — and brings them forward. In 2020, the apparatuses of what we know have been largely exposed. Scott has chosen to reflect this phenomenon, and to build from it.

Edges, seams, corsetry boning, panels, darts, trims and more are shown on garments’ outsides. Pant pockets flap freely, almost as petal-esque drapes. A zipper on a halter dress is inverted, ending in a golden jacquard trim sewn on backwards. Dresses are carefully crafted inversely, while tulle under-skirts extend beyond hemlines, creating unconventional proportions and silhouettes.

The color palette is now softened, diffused into pale golds, princess blues, pea greens and pretty pinks. A plume motif, seen intermittently, recalls the intimate salon shows of long ago Paris. These finer elements speak to a bit of a reset; quietude as a foil to the nonstop global noise.

Speaking of nostalgic presentations: the Spring 2021 show was unveiled in film format. Elegant models created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop were filmed while walking through rooms in a classic salon style fashion show. The clothes, too, were shrunk to marionette proportions — a Moschino wink-and-nod to the fact that in order to begin anew, you have to start small.

Director: Jeremy Scott
Producer: Alex Winter
Executive Producers: Geoff Yim and Scott Kroopf
Co-Producers: Devorah DeVries, Jade Allen and Eileen Kwon
DP: Anghel Decca
Production Design: Melanie Jones
Sound: Michelle Guasto
Field Producer: Kieran de Leon-Horton
Music: Michel Gaubert
Stitch Editorial
Editor: Weston Cadwell
Post Producer: Mila Davis
Assistant Post Producer: Lawrence Ng
VFX Artist: Mitch Gardiner
Colorist: Michael Gossen

Puppets designed and built by: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
Creative Supervisor: Peter Brooke
Business Development: Jeremy Nocon
Production Manager: Amy Smith
Master Marionettist: Tim Lagasse
Robert Bennett
John Criswell
Scott Johnson
Greg Aprahamian
Andrea Coleman
Andrea Detwiler
Tim Lagasse
Russ Lukich
Jim McKenzie
Gary Pawlowski
Daniel Stilley
Chad Thomas