Marni Fall 2009 RTW Collection

Designer(designer toej) Consuelo Castiglioni Last season was all about the kooky, kitschy gal with a cartoon-chic closet. This time around, the Marni girl buckled down, got serious and a bit more grown up without losing any of her feisty spunk. For starters, there were mink earmuffs and trapper hats, fur mitts and ski gloves, goggle sunglasses, garlands of antiqued gold flowers, woolly checkered tights, and stacks of bangles. The clothes, too, were a description-defying conglomeration of fabric, fur, and knit: grid-patterned metallic brocade, plain felts, patchworked jacquards, evergreen fox, chintzy roses.