Uma Wang continued to explore Renaissance art in her spring collection, this time looking to its statuary and in particular the sculptures of Virtues in Mantua’s Palazzo Te.

The Shanghai-based designer, who spends half of the year in Verona, Italy, these days, said she wanted a softer, more relaxed direction after last season’s voluminous outlines.

Draping captured in marble was translated back into fabric, filtered by Wang’s modern eye and superlative tailoring. Statuesque silhouettes became looser but never undone through a palette of washed linens and an array of matte and glossy silks, while neutral tones ranging from sandstone hues to deep browns simultaneously evoked summer ease and the sculptor’s material palette.

Knits were crafted from large loose stitches that gave them airine

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