Max Mara | Pre Fall Winter 2022/2023 | The Looks

Max Mara | Pre Fall Winter 2022/2023 | The Looks Always impeccably clad in a bespoke Savile Row pinstripe suit, Max Mara’s long-serving creative director Ian Griffiths is a gentleman of the old-world kind. When congratulated on his immaculate look, he graciously demurred. “I feel a bit constricted though.” There’s an Italian saying that goes “one must suffer to be beautiful,” but it surely doesn’t apply to Max Mara’s intelligent design, which is all about making women both beautiful and comfortable—no suffering necessary. “Intelligent” was a recurring term in Griffiths’s conversation, emphasizing a common quality pertaining to what he called the collection’s three “witnesses.” “They’re women of substance,” he said. How else to describe Fran Lebowitz, Patti Smith, and the young Kaia Gerber if not as being all gifted with abundant intellect, talent, and wit? They’re also defined by an individual sense of style, which relates to the classy essentiality of traditional masculine tropes. “Classic does