#MFW Runway Recap: Andrea Pompilio Spring 2016 Is Slightly Feminine

In January there was something in the air at the menswear shows that was undeniable. Let’s be clear it wasn’t just in the air, it was most prominently on the Gucci runway, an unofficial debut for the brand’s new creative director Alessandro Michelle. Though his official debut wouldn’t come for a full month as the house’s next women’s collection, by all accounts from the brand, Michelle had really taken creative control of the men’s range and the styling was uniquely his. So why bring up that collection in the review of the Spring 2016 collection of Andrea Pompili? Because of the femininity.

There’s been a rash of publication posting the question of whether gender really matters any more, whether we are all going to be buying clothes with genderless labels at some point in the future. These articles point to an increasing cohort of labels who proclaim to be genderless(a sphere that Rad Hourani has been commandeering most notably for the longest) and in the comments, men increasingly come out saying that they’ve bought a few items from the women’s sections themselves. But what was shown at Pomipili wasn’t necessarily gender neutral, it was just feminine inspired.

button downs came soft, breezy as a blouse would while silk scarves spake to that same fragility. Don’t get us wrong, there was nothing fey about this combination of trainers(our favorites came down in high top variations) knit tanks and tactile, utilitarian outerwear. But in the smallest of ways there was a feminine thread, snaking it’s way through.

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