Pringle of Scotland... In her continued quest to reinvent the Scottish knitwear label Pringle, creative director Clare Waight Keller has been looking for ways to modernize its heritage argyle pattern. “I wanted to break up the design and make it more abstract,” she said at today’s pre-fall presentation. A...
Rachel Roy... “Moroccan military” is the angle Rachel Roy is working for pre-fall. Not literally, of course—we don’t suppose she’s been up nights studying the North African armed forces—but this collection’s uniform-inspired touches, rendered in moody, autumnal colors, put...
Collette Dinnigan... Fantasy is one theme of the Spring collections, and Alice in Wonderland was the muse Collette Dinnigan channeled. It took a while to get to the fun part, though: The designer opened this dress-focused show with a passage in pre-rabbit-hole black and white. There was a little lace, some tulle, and...
Costume National... On the same morning that Karl Lagerfeld took pains to emphasize the un-brevity of the shorts he was showing, Ennio Capasa paraded the most impossibly tiny variants of the same idea. His premise was “tender heart, tough exterior,” which possibly explained the biker-chick combo of jacket and...
Richard Nicoll... Dusty pretty colors, simple unforced shapes, and enough quirky detail to make it interesting: All these summery qualities came together on a href=”/fashionshows/designerdirectory/RNIC/seasons/” target=”_blank”Richard Nicoll/a’s runway. “I was looking for that balance...
LP.BG... Lily Parker and Ben Grimes are part of London’s new wave of young women designers with something to say. Grimes is a model and Parker a trained pattern-cutter who worked with Richard Nicoll until the two friends set up a href=”/fashionshows/designerdirectory/LPBG/seasons/”...