There were plenty of kids fashion highlights at Pitti Bimbo 85, the trade fair held in Florence every season which seems to just keep on growing.
This season there were 548 exhibitors and numerous events, some of which I will cover in detail later in the week.
Catwalk shows included Children’s Fashion from Spain, Monnalisa, Il Gufo and I Pinco Pallino and events such as the Pucci Junior launch I covered yesterday and a beautiful breakfast by Roberto Cavalli plus a fantastic Pitti Blooms party on the Friday evening.
Kids fashion is still hooked on bright colours and the newest styles feature unusual shirting, lots of bib fronts, ruffled shoulder and sleeve details and wider leg pants.
Animals are still the favoured print with flamingo’s, swans and dogs coming into the equation for summer 2018.
The news from Pitti re buyers shows that there is an increase from countries such as Russia, China, Ukraine, Netherlands and Austria whilst total visitors stays at around 10,000.
If there is a running theme at all it is the number of Mini Me collections at the show, with new kids labels for Neil Barrett (well known in menswear and now with a womens line too) Elisabetta Franchi (known in Italy for womenswear) and Marco Bologna whose designers used to work with Dolce & Gabbana and also have a successful womenswear line whilst Raspberry Plum introduced Maxi Me with adult versions of her unique creations and Monnalisa launched a Mummy and Me collection with adult versions to match the kids!
Dolce & Gabbana had a beautiful fruit stand in the centre of the Fortessa featuring their Mini Me kids fashion collection for SS18
Red coral and sea life print at Roberto Cavalli whose collection is now in house and made in Italy for SS18
Neil Barrett striking graphic boyswear taken for the adult menswear collection was a new launch at Pitti Bimbo for SS18 kidswear
Another new girls launch Elisabetta Franchi is a mini me from the womenswear collection and a well known label in Italy
Beautiful shirts and dresses by Marcobologna for kids fashion Mini Me summer 2018
Bib fronts are a trend item a Pitti Bimbo for summer 2018 in girls fashion, here from Vivetta
The first time I’ve seen a bride on the kids catwalk with a Mommy and Me collection at Monnalisa for SS18
Then there’s the after party Maxi Me by Raspberry Plum with a glorious tulle confection for girls and ladies SS18
Mummymoon had a fantastic cotton shirting striped girlswear collection at Pitti Bimbo 85 for SS18
One of the kids fashion highlights was this wall of flamingo’s by SemSem for summer 18 inspiration
More bibs in modernist style at Leoca for girlswear SS18
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