THE NEW COLOUR PALETTE

The Seventies maintains its hold on designer imaginations – this time, it was a love story written in colour. Tod’s was an autumn leaf-peeping scene of russets, burgundies, bronzes and browns, best seen in a conker-red coat with mustard loafers. Ermanno Scervino, celebrating his 18th year at MFW, put all his chips on camel. Bally carried the egg-yolk-yellow that started in New York into Milan, and Brunello Cucinelli presented super-soft, pleat-front, chocolatebrown corduroys and skinny ties that wouldn’t have looked out of place on Annie Hall. It was enough to make the black, brown and beige Versace minidress from Anna Dello Russo’s charity auction on Saturday night look very next-season.