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Feathers and Ruffles and Discounts! Cavalli to Design for H&M

  • 6/20/07 at 11:07 AM
Roberto Cavalli

Looks from Roberto Cavalli's fall 2007 collection. Photos: Imaxtree.com

Shoppers, mark your calendars. On November 8, H&M will unveil a new collaboration with Roberto Cavalli, the chain announced this morning. "The Roberto Cavalli collections represent an exuberant, successful lifestyle," H&M's design chief, Margareta van den Bosch, said in the announcement — which is something of an understatement. Cavalli has cultivated a notoriously wild aesthetic — his latest collection featured cowboy hats, leopard-print trapeze coats, skintight, sequined gowns, and jodhpurs — and one wonders how H&M's mass clientele will react. Should we expect watered-down versions of these outrageous efforts, or will Cavalli stretch outside his trademark sensibility and design for everywoman? His canned quotes shed no light. "I love freedom and challenges: breaking down barriers, experimenting in different directions," he said in the statement. The new collection "will add a dash of festivity and dreams." Of course. —Kendall Herbst
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