Versace/ RTW Spring 2013

Lighter, looser, leggier—three descriptions to contrast with Donatella Versace’s more structured, grown-up, and polished collections of last year. “There is nothing under all those dresses!” she remarked backstage, as the girls were stripping off the few ounces of tie-dyed, featherweight washed silk they’d just been strutting on the runway at the Versace palazzo. “I didn’t use any of the usual construction that goes inside. I wanted to challenge myself to do fluidity and lightness—and to have the ability to change.” “Is it younger, too?” ventured a reporter, tentatively. “Yes. But I am getting younger!” Ms. Versace shot back, laughing. “Maybe it’s for a younger crowd. I stepped out of my comfort zone.”