FASHION
Max Mara takes us on a maritime trip
A dream running away to sea
Hanane Tabet
28-July-2020
Painters, poets and philosophers, composers, cartoonists and crooners from Shakespeare to Stevie Nicks, T.S. Eliot to TracyEmin, Jeanette Winterson to Jean Genet; they have all felt the lure of the sea. Max Mara shares their fascination.
The ocean is a potent metaphor for the human condition; hazard and hope, love and longing, valor and vain gloriousness. Tales of ships and sailors are universal. “In civilizations without boats,” Michel Foucault observed, “dreams dry up.”
Ms Max Mara has been dreaming a lot of late. Daydreaming. A little tired of the hidebound conventions of corporate life, she sits at her desk and entertains fantasies of running away to sea. Her dreams cast her as the captain of her ownship, out to rule the waves and make her fortune.
Northward bound, from Morocco to Murmansk, she imagines majestic wintry seascapes. And whilst she’s charting her course with characteristic Max Mara levelheadedness, she detects a surprisingly romantic impulse stirring within her.
And what’s in this latter-day adventurer’s wardrobe? Well, the maritime theme yields a variety of silhouettes and a newer way to mix Max Mara’s signature camel, grey, white and, naturally, navy. There are coats of all kinds; officer class greatcoats, capes, cabans, and duffels with toggles and tassels. Luxuriant robe-de-chambres are tied at the waist with an elegant rope. Ruffles and gathers lend debonair swagger to the shoulders and sleeves of camel hair classics, pinstripe jackets and a skirts with hemlines that dip dramatically on one side.
A capacious Max Mara doudoune is perfect for the harshest weathers - its outer shell is resilient nylon, but its wadding is a cashmere fleece. Of course, an epic sea adventure requires a fair amount of stowage. Hence Max Mara’s Marine bag capacious and soft but with structure like a ship’s keel.
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