Bottega Veneta marks 50 years of ‘intrecciato’ at Harrods

This yr, Bottega Veneta celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of ‘intrecciato’, a leather-based weaving method which was first launched in 1975 and has since turn into a central a part of the Italian trend home’s design vernacular (favouring understatement, the distinctive intrecciato has taken the place of extra overt branded logos or monograms).

It has additionally turn into symbolic of Bottega Veneta’s longstanding veneration of craft: an intrecciato purse, for instance, can take days to assemble, counting on a technique of weaving whereby particular person strands of leather-based (the ‘fettuce’) are braided collectively round a body of wooden. ‘Interconnectedness, change and [a] collaborative ethos,’ say Bottega Veneta of intrecciato’s symbolic significance to the home.

Inside Bottega Veneta’s Harrods pop-up

Festivities start at this time in London, whereby an ephemeral area in historic Knightsbridge division retailer Harrods is devoted to the method (the ground-floor, street-level area has been the positioning of quite a few latest pop-ups, from a Miu Miu ‘gymnasium’ to a summer season retailer from Celine). Previewed this morning, the area – unsurprisingly – is certainly one of luxurious and refinement, with nods to intrecciato within the customized furnishings (a set of armchairs in jumbo intrecciato is especially interesting).

On the centre, although, is a powerful console desk constructed from contrasting walnut wooden and concrete – titled La Tavola, it references the workshop tables on the Bottega Veneta atelier – which homes a sequence of intrecciato merchandise, together with purses, wallets and even dog-shaped leather-based bag charms (as a part of the show, some are left ‘in course of’ as a way to see the advanced weaving it takes to create each). Elsewhere, alongside the home’s latest launched perfume line, is a small choice of ready-to-wear – together with an intrecciato shirt and trousers, the spoils of hours of artisanal handcraft.

The opening comes at a pivotal second for the Italian home: later this month, British designer Louise Trotter will current her debut assortment as inventive director at Milan Vogue Week. The much-anticipated present – Trotter is a uncommon girl designer in a male-dominated area – will happen on the night of 27 September, with to this point solely a handful of hints as to what to anticipate from the previous Lacoste and Carven designer’s tenure.

These embrace a sequence of customized appears for actor – and just lately confirmed model ambassador – Vicky Krieps, together with an uneven handkerchief-cut costume in black grain de poudre worn with intrecciato earrings on the premiere of Father Mom Sister Brother on the 82nd Venice Movie Pageant final month (the movie competition additionally supplied the primary glimpses of Jonathan Anderson’s Dior high fashion and Dario Vitale’s Versace).

In the meantime, an preliminary marketing campaign – titled ‘Craft is Our Language’ and marking the intrecciato’s fiftieth anniversary – noticed a lot of notable figures photographed by Jack Davison with a specific concentrate on the fingers, lots of which have been interlinked as a nod to the intrecciato weave (contributors included Krieps, Tyler the Creator and Julianne Moore, amongst others). ‘[These] hand gestures that join folks throughout generations, cultures, backgrounds, and contexts,’ mentioned the home of the poetic marketing campaign, which now adorns Harrods’ iconic Brompton Highway home windows.