Marina Rinaldi Experience

Tatjana Patitz for the spring-summer 2010 Marina Rinaldi Camapaign

Back in the mid 1960’s, Paris chose non-colors for its collections. The lines were distinct and the contrast was sharp. A few years before, Chanel had already experimented these on its cap toes, the very famous shoes with a perfect contrast, which a short while later became the leitmotiv of its collections.
And so it is that the most loved combination of the history of fashion, black&white, is about to become insistent once again.

Spring 2010 revives this color combo – provided that someone has lost sight of it – and turns it into one of the certainties of the upcoming season. It little matters if there’s black on white, like the music staff, or white on black, like cream in coffee . The result – we women well know – is always an act of class, a reassuring certainty, a choice capable of providing styles with the right balance.
Extraordinarily chic, white and black create an immediate couture look, whether they appear  as motifs on a sophisticated crêpe de Chine dress or on a pair of  rubber open toe ballerinas, to wear in the daytime and in the evening with preserved elegance.
Marina Rinaldi, who has always dedicated a privileged space to the two colors in its collections, proposes them for the next season on bicolored accessories with Parisian allure, necklaces and swimsuits drawing inspiration from Op Art, bags in technical fabric and monochrome garments to casually combine and to buy up for the upcoming season.

Green light therefore to trench coats, a seasonal “passe-partout”, which in white or in black have always reached their most elegant version. A white shirt, the easy garment “par excellence”, chic and irreplaceable, which Marina Rinaldi has designed with new feminine, embroidered proposals. Also in the spotlight are the stretch cotton pants to match with knitwear and short jackets, strictly aiming at contrasts, for the more active days. Without forgetting the accessories that provide balance to the total white or black look. This is the principle of  Ying and Yang applied to fashion: a black matelassé bag on a pure white dress, a white belt around the waist of a black jersey dress, a satin blouse that peeks out from a black scarf jacket.
And if you’re at a loss of ideas, let yourself be inspired here…