Circus animals, clowns and jesters take a front and centre in the latest collaboration between style icon Anna Dello Russo and Italian powerhouse, Tod's
It was a collision of two fashion phenomena guaranteed to create something exciting and unique: Tod’s, the Italian supremo of fine leather goods and shoes, and style icon Anna Dello Russo, editor-at-large for Vogue Japan. The result, a capsule collection of accessories called Circus, is equal parts extravagant and exuberant in representing the fantastical world of life under the Big Top, with its clowns, acrobats and exotic animals.
The classic Gommino loafer is refreshed with glitter, stars, stripes, diamond prints and feather charms, but it’s the clown faces and the fur trimmings that are likely to capture your attention first. The same approach is also applied to the signature Tod’s Double T satchel. Have a closer look and you will also spot two jesters playfully incorporated into the Double T buckle.
The collection, launched at Tod’s Omotesando store in Tokyo, is a fairly large departure from the house’s traditional design approach, but the collaboration, after all, is with Dello Russo, whose fearless approach to fashion has long been an obsession of street-style photographers around the world. Asked how she became the style icon of today, she says, “By changing 100 looks a day. Even in the car, between one destination and another.”
No wonder you never see the editor and creative consultant in the same thing twice. Dello Russo took some time out to dish with us on the design process behind the circus-inspired capsule collection.