Grace Wales Bonner will star as Pitti Uomo’s guest designer this June!
Grace Wales Bonner’s last collection, the designer teased some intel: “At some point in the next few months—Wales Bonner is keeping her cards close to her chest about exactly where—there will be an event, a happening somewhere in the world that will involve performance, music, friends, and clothes.”
The location of that multifaceted shindig to come was today revealed as this June’s 102nd edition of the Pitti Uomo trade fair in Florence, where Wales Bonner will star as the season’s guest designer. She will show her spring 2023 collection in June. Pitti’s policy to highlight a shifting roster of only a few runway-showing brands each season has created the context for especially memorable, often standout, shows, including some from Telfar, Raf Simons, Craig Green, Off-White, and Rick Owens, among many others.
In a release the designer herself said: “I welcome this special opportunity to express Wales Bonner’s vision of cultural luxury at the historically important institution of Pitti Uomo.