As we sank into our leather seats, each one an animal leather bean bag based on the Sacco chair (mine, a panda) there was a buzzing sense of wonder. The fun seating made up of whales, horses, chickens, ladybirds, bears and more - may have framed a sense of the lighthearted but Matthieu Blazy is serious and his Bottega Veneta is evolving as brilliant. This was the kind of collection that just goes on giving, bouncing with ideas and incredible materials rewritten by the Blazy playbook.

Each look was a clever mix of something we all know - take a great jacket, or a pleated skirt and give them a twist of the unknown; a swagger of asymmetric, a swathe of undulating leather - the whole lot a highly polished rearrangement of proportion. The looks in fact were characters, the  man who drops his kid to school; the mother on her way to work; the teenage kid who borrows their parents clothes. We at 10 could relate as we like to borrow.

And it had “the power of wow” that Blazy intended: face of the house Jacob Elordi, Kendall Jenner, Julianne Moore, A$AP Rocky, Steve McQueen and those who have been championed and loved online, like Nara Smith, Olympian Imane Khelif and queen of demure, Jools Lebron. All finely in tune with this creative perspective. The shoes and the bags - the bread and butter of Bottega Veneta were the icing on the ideas - up close at the re see the next day tiny frogs clambered the stilettos and grocery bags leaned into the lives of his people just going about their business. Richard Scarry's 'Biggest Word Book Ever' took us back and reinforced that inner child healing.

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