Bally has unveiled its autumn/winter 2014 collection – the first
created by the Swiss company's new design director Pablo Coppola. Taking a sophisticated, modern
approach to luxury, the collection seeks to redefine the brand’s heritage (since
1851) into an innovative language, Bally says.
Many pieces in the collection incorporate a graphic detail
called the Gentleman’s Corner – a slice off the inside edge of the heel on a
man’s dress shoe, which prevents the trouser leg fabric from tearing. This signature detail appears throughout the collection on the corner of handbags, wallets, shirt
and jacket cuffs and pockets.
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| The new Corner Bag featuring the Gentleman's Corner design detail |
For the autumn/winter 14 women’s collection, exotic skins, suede
and nappa, wools and cashmeres, twills and tweeds combine to create a
sophisticated tactility in an updated minimal palette.
In footwear, the season’s heel is stacked and rounded,
matched with a delicately pointed or rounded toe, in pumps, ankle boots and
knee-high boots. Highly polished finishes add deep lustre to shades of burgundy,
military green and black. Blush and fawn hues give a silky look to ponyskin
pointed courts.
The natural tactility and patterns of ring lizard is
enhanced via shades of stone or electric citron in stiletto pumps. A single
piece of leather is shaped on a form for days to create a long single-seamed
boot that follows the curve of the leg. Bold three-dimensional effects appear
on brogue’s seams. Supple cream nappa plimsolls round out the look.
Bags feature clean lines, minimal hardware, and contemporary
heritage signatures. Leather finishes show their fine grain. The Bloom bag is
named for its duffel shape with buckled sides that open out like petals. The
design features Bally’s updated crest motif, subtly embossed near the handles –
a reference to Switzerland’s three mountain peaks.
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| The Corner Bag in oxblood crocodile |
Bally Dottic, an indented pattern first seen on a men’s shoe
style from 1935, infuses fresh texture into the Gentlewoman bag. Structured and
square-shaped with a detachable shoulder strap, one levelled angle on its base
is inspired by a century-old Bally design detail of the gentleman’s corner of a
man’s shoe. Hold-all Sommet’s structured bull grain leather lined in Bally Red
nappa has a pliable shape left bare except for a single buckle closure. A
drawstring blush shoulder tote doubles as a fold-over clutch. Rectangular
clutches and shoulder bags have the structure and polish of box calf.
Men’s tailoring codes are found in women’s outerwear and essential suiting: a classic blazer, and a duo of trouser styles, narrow with pleats or roomy. Pieces include a shortened cashmere-bonded leather blouson, full-length unlined cashmere camel and Prince of Wales black-and-white check coats, twill silk shirts, wide-legged high-waist trousers and dense cashmere knits. Knee-length pencil skirts – one in pale cream cashmere – have high waists so pockets sit on the hips. Evoking the texture of cashmere, feathery feel suede comes in a T-shirt and crew neck military green dress.
Pablo Coppola, Bally’s new design director, said: “Razor-sharp
in focus, soft in silhouette and defined by the cut, we played with proportion
to create a look founded in pared-down ultra-luxe separates for a real woman of
today.”
The new Corner Bag
The new Corner Bag is designed with a single cut corner inspired
by the gentleman’s corner of a man’s shoe. It is crafted in embossed Dottie
leather, inspired by the Bally 1935 archive. The Corner bag is also available in pony, lizard and alligator, in small or medium sizes.
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