{"id":1414924,"date":"2025-12-22T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1414924"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:36:29","slug":"forget-a-ralph-lauren-christmas-i-want-a-roberto-cavalli-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1414924","title":{"rendered":"Forget a Ralph Lauren Christmas\u2014I Want a Roberto Cavalli Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forget a Ralph Lauren Christmas\u2014I Want a Roberto Cavalli Christmas<\/h1>\n
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By <\/span>Margaux Anbouba<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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In a world of Carries, Mirandas, Charlottes, and Samanthas, I\u2019m an Adriana. As in Adriana La Cerva, mob wife and fashion icon in her own right from The Sopranos<\/em>. When I get dressed in the morning, there\u2019s never the consideration of a quirky bare-abdomen belt or prim-and-proper silhouettes\u2014I\u2019m drawn to animal prints, sequins, and a flash of skin. And it wasn\u2019t until \u201cRalph Lauren Christmas\u201d began trending on social media that I realized that desire extended to my holiday decorations, too.<\/p>\n

Charlotte would definitely be a fan of a Ralph Lauren Christmas (and I think at least Miranda, if not all the SATC gals, would be, too). It\u2019s cozy, classic, and full-on Americana with touches of tartan, deep jewel tones, that cute little teddy bear seen on all the sweaters, and gold. Festive? Yes. But my dream Christmas aligns with a different brand identity. I want a Cavalli Christmas.<\/p>\n

In a Vogue<\/em> story from 2000, Sarah Mower describes Roberto Cavalli\u2019s designs as \u201cfluttering, animal-printed, rhinestone-studded, gold-blasted, and unmissably laminated to the curves of Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner.\u201d It\u2019s a brand that Adriana was drawn to on The Sopranos<\/em>\u2014she wore a tiger-motif dress from Cavalli fall 2000 in one of her most memorable scenes\u2014and I am, too.<\/p>\n

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Roberto Cavalli with the Spice Girls at his fall 2008 show in Milan.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRoberto was bang, bang, bang all the time,\u201d Fausto Puglisi, Roberto Cavalli\u2019s creative director, tells me over Zoom. \u201cThe brand is very Italian. We are connected to prints, to decoration, to flamboyance. It\u2019s about sexiness and \u2018look at me,\u2019 but in an empowered way.\u201d Puglisi lists zebra, deep red roses, and leopard as some of the major house motifs.<\/p>\n

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Karen Elson, Natasha Poly, Isabeli Fontana, Joan Smalls, Eva Herzigova, and Alek Wek walk in designs by Puglisi for the Roberto Cavalli spring 2025 show in Milan.<\/p>\n

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We agree a Cavalli Christmas looks something like this: Yes, stockings are hung by the chimney with care\u2014but those stockings are Scalamandr\u00e9\u2019s tiger-striped velvet stockings. When St. Nick comes down on his sleigh, he won\u2019t find paper chains adorning the doorways, but leopard print chiffon garlands fluttering in the breeze (obviously, we\u2019re somewhere tropical in my Cavalli Christmas dreamscape). And yes, the day will be merry and bright\u2014bright red, bright pink, and bright gold.<\/p>\n

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Roberto Cavalli and Irina Shayk at the designer\u2019s yacht party in Cannes, 2014.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMr. Cavalli\u2019s home in Florence was absolutely fantastic,\u201d Puglisi says, adding to the vision. There, he collected dark wood Italian antiques, religious memorabilia, and kept both a wolfdog and a gorgeous parakeet bird as pets. \u201cHis design style had a sense of decadence, also of rock and roll, from mixing all the prints. At the center of the table were large dark red roses, and we only ate by candlelight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Roberto Cavalli at his New York City showroom in 2000.<\/p>\n

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Noted. Add a hundred candles to my Cavalli Christmas dreamscape, pronto. \u201cThis was all the DNA of Roberto, which you can still find at Cavalli today,\u201d Puglisi concludes. Animal prints, sequins, soft light, and a little bit of sex appeal. Santa, baby!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

Source URL: http:\/\/vogue.com\/article\/forget-a-ralph-lauren-christmas-i-want-a-roberto-cavalli-christmas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Living Forget a Ralph Lauren Christmas\u2014I Want a Roberto Cavalli Christmas By Margaux Anbouba December 22, 2025 Photographed by Tom Van Heel, Vogue, August 2000 In a world of Carries, Mirandas, Charlottes, and Samanthas, I\u2019m an Adriana. As in Adriana La Cerva, mob wife and fashion icon in her own right from The Sopranos. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-1414924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-vogue-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}