Going Places: Taller Marmo designers on stepping out of your sartorial comfort zone

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Expert purveyors of party power dressing, Ricardo Audisio and Yago Goicoechea of Taller Marmo discuss stepping out of your sartorial comfort zone and the inspiration behind their new “Nocturne” collection.

Designers Ricardo Audisio and Yago Goicoechea founded fashion label Taller Marmo in 2013. From evening soirées to the red carpet, the Italian brand’s day-to-night separates and cocktail dresses have become the go-to for discerning tastemakers looking to make an impression.

Chic and confident, Taller Marmo designs offer distinctive occasionwear with a nostalgic twist – clothes with quite the stories to tell the morning after. From mini dresses and matching sets to sequined tops and feather-trimmed maxi dresses, each collection consistently serves up decadence, opulence, and glamour in what feels like a sartorial breath of fresh air.

For the festive season, an imposing confidence takes hold of the brand with the Nocturne collection – an edit of power party ensembles marked by fluid fabrications and silhouettes in a technicolour palette. Uncomplicated, unfussy, and unboring, these pieces are the ultimate foundation for a great night out – which has always been the ethos behind Taller Marmo. Designers Goicoeachea and Audi-sio treat dressing up as a ritual and a way to shift how you move through a room. For this party collection, that instinct is sharpened by years of working between Dubai and Italy, where the former taught them scale and grandeur and the latter, precision. What anchors Taller Marmo is the kaftan, a piece they inherited from their formative years in Dubai. The duo have spent seasons refining it, stripping it back, shaping it again, and for Nocturne, they introduced sharper lines and micro lengths that carry the same ease and hold drama without weight, which has become their signature. It feels dressed without effort. Giocoechea explains it simply. “This is our party collection dedicated to the night. We started talking about interesting things that happened in the past during the night, or what was the most interesting decade in nightlife, and that is why we ended up touching the 20s and 30s and then the 80s.”

Those eras share a sense of performance that feels natural to the brand. “Comfort is underappreciated. Women think dressing up means being uncomfortable, but we work against that. Comfort leads to being confident, and that confidence leads to feeling empowered,” say Giocoechea. Yet everything is seen through the prism of a modern lens. “Even if we are talking about something in the 20s or 30s, it goes through that filter. How the modern woman will be fabulous,” he adds. The colours, textures, instinct, and discipline come together in this collection that feels alive in motion – clothes for a woman who enjoys the preparation, the entrance, and the night that follows. Fabric acts as the creative spark that triggered this season.

“Comfort is underappreciated. Women think dressing up means being uncomfortable, but we work against that. Comfort leads to being confident, and that confidence leads to feeling empowered.”

“This collection was inspired by one fabric, that multicoloured velvet devore with the flowers… This thing that is so old feels so fresh,” shares Giocoeachea. The pair built the palette around it, then pushed the cuts further. “We said we can go to more parties, more sexy, more colourful. We can amp things up.” Nocturne captures a brand that understands the pleasure of getting dressed and going out. While the designs seem grandiose, for the 12-year-old brand, the creative process remains relatively small. “There is no merchandising or analyst, or collection planner. There are just the two of us and two pattern makers,” Giocoeachea affirms. One begins with mood and broad ideas, the other edits with precision. “I arrive with an idea, a feeling. Ricardo shapes it. I get bored easily, and he is more detail-oriented,” he adds. Audisio, the more reserved of this creative dynamic duo, says, “What I like the most is going into the detail of things – and it can be very technical. It can be applied to everything I do, work and outside of work.
“We fight like cats. Sometimes we have big fights about, maybe, a pocket!” Giocoeachea shares with a laugh. This candour is refreshing to see – and makes sense of their work. Taller Marmo’s carefree spirit and silhouettes feel deliberate and never overworked, but it’s their creative partnership that gives the clothes their structure.

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