Models wearing leather platform sandals and floral headbands walked down the circular synthetic grass runway in easy-to-pack shirt-dresses, ruffled shifts that don't wrinkle, all-purpose jackets and cardigans and ultra-soft chiffon evening wear. Pants range from palazzo pajama to hot pants, with cropped Capris and knitted denim jeans in between. The flat envelope bag accompanied most of the outfits.

For her runway bow, von Furstenberg came out with Russian model Natalia Vodinova, wearing one of von Furstenberg's original floral printed wrap dresses.

After the show the designer invited several hundred friends and family, including granddaughter Talita and Italian relatives from the influential Agnelli family, to a picnic dinner in the terraced Torrigiani gardens, sculpted in the shadow of a medieval tower.