Veronica Leoni started working on this collection just days after Moncler’s raucous last-February Genius launch and after-party: ah, the Rick Owens RV, the bratwurst, and the dance floor. That launch coincided with the first discovered case of COVID-19 in Italy and its immediate aftermath. She remembered, “It was the first time we realized how specific our way of working had been, and that the way we were working had to change.”
Reviewing this collection feels changed too: That night last February involved helter-skelter-ing through 10 or so collections in less than one hour fashion speed dating which was both fun and efficient but hardly conducive to connection. In contrast, speaking with Leoni on Zoom and looking slowly at these look book images there’s no particular rush, as due to some calendar vagary the collection has been on sale since January, so this review is more an exercise in completism is highly conducive to connection. Even when frustratingly shot in black and