The 101801 is to Max Mara what the 2.55 is to Chanel: a signature object that has been worn by the world’s chicest women (including Isabella Rossellini, Cate Blanchett, and HRH Sofia ...

This was Ian Griffiths’s preshow preface to a Max Mara collection that sought to sublimate the contrasting romantic essences of the Brontë sisters’ famous protagonists: heroine chic.