Runway Show

The new 2020 Spring-Summer collection hits the catwalk: from three-piece Prince of Wales suits to outfits combining Bermuda shorts with multi-pocket shirts in pastel colors; and from black-and-white scarves featuring micro-prints to long skirts in delicately colored Paisley.

The collection is inspired by feminist writer Natasha Walter and her fiction adventure “A Quiet Life” who puts a woman at the center of a spy thriller.

Walter is not the first, but she’s one of very few. The latest is the BBC America phenomenon Killing Eve and its writer, woman-of-the-moment Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been hired to polish the script of the new Bond movie.

Max Mara imagines the wardrobe for a film yet to be made: Spy-style trench coats and sharp shouldered three-piece trouser suits in ‘sharkskin’ and Prince-de-Galles.

To the airport; she never travels without a generously proportioned bush jacket and a perfectly designed

Whitney bag.

Later, lunch at a discreet Mayfair watering hole; she wears a playful mix micro foulard prints in black and white.

She favours tropical military uniforms –shorts that graze the knee and multi-pocketed shirts in eau-de-nil, shell pink, and powder blue.

She is prepared for every eventuality. She has long pale paisley print bias cut skirts and fluid pastel gowns with tough looking braces.

She walks across in a flurry of diagonally placed silk volants. In this film –and in real life- Max Mara never lets her down.