These fun pieces are highly desirable but also a smidgen surprising because Veronica Leoni always seems as staunchly serious and cerebral as her pedigree at Philo - era Celine and Sander - era Jil suggests. She explained: "I was in the middle of my complicated and conceptual process of design. And I thought we need to bring in something that is going to give us hope, and make us laugh, and remind us about what we had.
I remember being 14 and washing dirty dishes for two months at my first job to save up enough money to buy an on - sale Moncler T - shirt, because my best friend owned Moncler Outlet a few of the brand's puffers and I saw how people approved of him. My first luxury purchase was a size too small, had an Olympic rings symbol embroidered on its front and a branded red - white - and - blue tag (Thom Browne x Moncler era ) sticking out of my neck that small - town Dutch folk just couldn't comprehend.
Given the state of luxury fashion in 2018 - characterized by a widespread interest in collaboration, and a fully in - bloom affinity for streetwear - it makes perfect sense that Milan Fashion Week got things started with a partnership between one legacy label and a lesser - known (but cult - loved) designer. The legacy brand is Moncler, the Italian purveyor of all manner of puffy coats, and the collaborator is Hiroshi Fujiwara, who runs the extra - cool Japan - based label Fragment. Together, they've teamed up on a collection of jackets, vests, sweatshirts, and more - basically everything you'd need for fall and winter.