Marco Rambaldi is finding it hard to leave home, and he’s not alone. The designer who built his brand on nostalgia, old crafts — namely crochet — and happy memories of Nonno and Nonna’s kitchen took inspiration from adolescents who are on the cusp of adulthood, and struggling to grow up.

To reinforce that point, he left boxes of Fisher-Price “Little People” figures on every seat, and wine bottles with candles stuffed in the necks, an attempt to bridge the worlds of adolescence and adulthood.

“They find comfort in fairy tales, and characters like Pippi Longstocking,” Rambaldi said of the season’s muses. He said he chose Piazza Tomasi di Lampedusa as the venue to underline the importance of the town square, and the comfort of the wider community.

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