FRIDAY FEB. 23, 2024 1:23 PM MILAN.
At Matteo Tamburini’s first collection as the creative director of Italian luxury brand Tod’s, a new “Tod’s woman” was born, and our editors were dying to meet her. “I want to know that woman,” said our editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg, who, along with fashion director Dara and a very mysterious and iconic third person, fell in love with her late-’90s chicness, snappy pants, and investment-worthy coats.
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MEL OTTENBERG: It’s Mel, Dara, and a great icon that shall remain nameless. Is that ok?
ANON: Yes, that’s fine.
OTTENBERG: We’re riding in a car and we’re going to talk about the Tod’s Show, which was excellent.
DARA: It took place in the train station.
ANON: The train station was very very beautiful, and I’m sorry, the heated bench?
OTTENBERG: The benches were incredible. There were metal benches with beautifully made cushions with heat tech inside those cushions.
ANON: I can tell you that they got warm.
OTTENBERG: Yeah, my butt was warm. Anonymous icon says they were watching me throughout the whole show. What was I giving you face-wise?
ANON: You were concentrating on the fashion in front of you. But I have a new thing that it’s not fashion, it’s style.
DARA: Yes.
ANON: And that had a lot of style.
OTTENBERG: I just got so excited seeing it. I really want to know that woman. I want to put women in those clothes. I want women to dress like that. There was a black leather blazer that was so cool.
ANON: But also the wide pant.
OTTENBERG: Yeah! The wide pant with the trench coat.
ANON: There’s kind of an origami thing going on here where the crease is very pronounced and snappy.
DARA: Snappy is a good word. It’s the break in the ankle. It’s very structured.
OTTENBERG: In the season of coats, I think that Tod’s trench coat is hitting on desires right now and I would suggest buying it.
ANON: It’s called investment buying. That lasts forever.
OTTENBERG: Now that’s an investment ladies.
DARA: There’s also a garment bag bag. It’s a tote that’s shaped like a garment bag.
ANON: Half a garment bag.
DARA: I thought it was a full garment bag, but now I’m looking at the photo and it’s cut in half.
OTTENBERG: This designer seems to love Margiela for Hermès, and that’s a great place to draw from because it was so good.
DARA: It’s really long but flat.
ANON: In a perfect world, any papers you have, you put in a plastic file, and you pop it right down there.
OTTENBERG: Wait what are you talking about? In the garment bag?
ANON: Yeah, because you can’t rifle through it.
DARA: No, this is a little flat file. Nice colors, nothing annoying.
ANON: A little bit of fringe.
DARA: That red leather dress with the fringe on the back was really beautiful. Did you see that?
ANON: I think it was a scarf, almost.
DARA: I thought it was a bag handle at first, and then she turns around and she’s fully covered with fringe.
OTTENBERG: There’s also some of the best black that I’ve seen this week. And perfect pants. I saw some stupid pants yesterday, but these were great. Now I’m gonna turn this off and talk about those stupid pants.
