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Left to right: Blumarine fall 2021, Paris Hilton in 2002, Sweetface fall 2005, Blumarine 2021Graphic by David Vo/ Left to right: Courtesy of Blumarine, Getty Images, Randy Brooke/WireImage, Courtesy of Blumarine
When I awoke this morning bleary-eyed, I opened my phone to see I was tagged in a photo from the fall 2021 Blumarine show by a
Vogue colleague. He commented, â@liana_ava is that you?â below a photo of a model in a cropped pink woven knit with a fur collar. Her earrings were fist-size and crafted from the same fur. Underneath, the model wore the teeniest bandeau rose-print top with a lace trim. The pink of the pieces made me think of chewed-up Bubble Yumâso sweet!âand also took me straight back to high school, when I dressed in a bootleg incarnation of those looks. The jeans were impossibly low-slung and covered with prints of flowers. The belt was dusty pink and had a hulking gem-encrusted butterfly pendant, hanging over the pants as a useless, gorgeous adornment. I was instantly in love. As the designer, Nicola Brognano, said in an unapologetic quote to the