Roberto Cavalli fall 2012 fashion show

There is flash, there is excess, and then there is Roberto Cavalli. One could see the preponderance of clothes bearing a baroque level of ornamentation in Milan these past few days as defiantly snubbing Italy’s prevailing downbeat economic and political outlook. In that case, Cavalli's collection is a full-scale revolt against even the slightest notion that things are heading south—way south. He paid homage to prowling big cats and slithering reptiles, all the better if they’re prowling and slithering over the likes of Naomi Campbell, who closed the show with a typically campy, vampy star turn. Cavalli has always loved to live big, think big, and design big . . . which leads us back to excess.
Source: Vogue