Tomas Maier Bottega Veneta Interview - Designer of Bottega Veneta - Harper's BAZAAR

The most Maier will allow himself by way of retrospection is a review of the video of his tightly edited, perfectly polished 35-look Fall 2011 show—which clocks in at around seven minutes, though he would prefer four: “I like it pretty short and hopefully painless.” It doesn’t sound like the day of the show is painless for Maier, mainly, it seems, because he must halt the quest for perfection that governs every collection. “It’s the nightmare day because we can’t change anything anymore,” he says, picking up a paper napkin from under his water glass and folding it precisely into ever-smaller triangles. “You feel like you’ve fallen into an empty hole. All the efforts, the work … it’s over. And it’s concrete—that dress, that silhouette, those shoes. Now let’s move on.”