As one of fashion’s longest-serving creative directors, Ian Griffiths always manages to find new things to say at Max Mara — or to leave unsaid. This season he put the brand’s signature camel shade on the back burner and let a host of dark blues, grays and black cast a spell of soigné sobriety.
This was a melancholy show that nevertheless packed a wallop with its sinuous or cocooning, drop-waist shapes reminiscent of the 1910s…