– Rachel rocks Milan Fashion Week –

PUCCI BY PETER DUNDAS

On Saturday, a select company climbed the stairs to the baroque space on the Corso Venezia where Peter Dundas will show his interpretation of Pucci. Hair stylist Rachel Geerman from the The Building Amsterdam is everywhere backstage, and so also here. A report.

Peter Dundas has been leading Pucci for five years now, and wow, he managed to transform a, excusez, rather dozed off house into one of the warmest labels in town. The prettiest girls are booked (Joan Smalls, Sasha Luss, Malaika Firth, Fei Fei Sun, Lindsey Wixson, Irina Kravchenko, and our very own Maartje Verhoef), and of course hair guru Luigi Murenu, who always books Rachel.

Though Dundas revived Pucci’s iconic past in the first five years he starting working there, he now dared to weave his own Nordic past with the Italian house’s history. And oh la la, it was a delicious north-south wedding with Scandinavian prints and wool dresses, though all in a Pucci length. Many long fur coats and beautiful, elegant suits with deep cleavages. Pucci and Peter, it’s a great combination.

Only to conclude with a small personal anecdote.  Some time ago, Doutzen graced the Marie Claire cover. I had worked on it for quite some time and I was proud to have her on our cover (in a Pucci dress). The shoot was right before the Prix de la Mode, and, like usual, I didn’t have anything, anything, ANYTHING to wear. “Why not try that Pucci dress?” fashion director Simone suggested. “It’s stretch and it was quite big on Doutzen, so who knows?” After choking on my latte, I headed to the fashion pen. Very aware of the humiliation that was about to descend upon me when I’d have to walk back to the other editors (“And? And?!”) in a ripped dress. But hey, the dress fitted and I had an outfit for the party. Coincidentally, the same issue with Doutzen on the cover was also the issue in which a report of the Prix was included, with me wearing that dress. I of course sent the issue to Peter Dundas which he answered with a handwritten card. In his beautiful artistic, but almost unreadable handwriting, I read: “Thanks for the cover and for wearing my dress. You both looked fat.” I was shocked for a moment. This couldn’t be true. I let others read the card. It said ‘fab’ not ‘fat’. Pffff….