SHIRTING has long been the backbone of my wardrobe – shirts with jeans, shirts with black trousers – mannish, non-decorative styles in classic white, blue, and banker stripes by designers like Céline, Valentino, Palmer//Harding (joint winners of this year’s BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund prize) and newcomer, Monographie, complete with irresistible tortoiseshell buttons. But as spring blooms, the shirtdress has become "the thing"; and it’s easy to see why. This extension of the shirt, sans trousers, is smart and chic and has the power to take you everywhere from the office to after-work drinks and all with the ease of it looking like something you’ve borrowed from your boyfriend. (On that note, to prevent it resembling an excuse-me-but-I-just-got-out-of-bed look ensure yours is crisp and not creased and furnish with jewellery - an armful of gold bangles, say - or a man’s watch). In other good news, there’s a shirtdress for every woman, from androgynous types to feminine souls – just dial up (or down) the flourish.
Where to look? Favourites include Raey’s short sleeved black style, Balenciaga’s blue striped version with button-back "tails", Loewe’s with sash-tied waist, Palmer//Harding’s tobacco-striped offering with asymmetric hemline and Sonia Rykiel’s mustard mini with balloon sleeves.
Of course, until pins are lightly sun-kissed (the shirtdress shouldn’t be attempted with tights – it’s just all wrong) no one actually said you had to lose the trousers. Last week, LA-based designer, Rosetta Getty instagrammed a picture of herself wearing her maxi white cotton shirtdress over a pair of indigo jeans, neatly tucked into the waistband or otherwise scooped back so it only looked like a shirtdress from behind with its dramatic cotton poplin train. Now there’s a way to make an entrance – and exit.
OCCASIONALLY an old faithful hits the runway and you somehow pass over it. Camel coats are nothing new, and easily pushed from the spotlight as bolshier red shearling and baby blue patent iterations get the front row snapping - but take a second glance. They're making a stealth bid for power for autumn/winter 2017. At Max Mara, whose claim on the camel coat is more comprehensive than most, the stand-out came with a matching headscarf, worn by model Halima Aden. At Dolce & Gabbana, camel came upholstered with boisterous roses. Fendi's camel coat came with delectable red top-stitching and F-logo buttons; while Bottega Veneta's was cool, calm, and double-breasted, with a little Forties kick. The biggest surprise? A camel coat on the runway at Versace, that fierce, feisty label with the monopoly on female empowerment. Camel's come over all uninhibited - wear it with anything.
The past few days, the local hair-like spring is still dominated by orders to undertake. Part of the front shop after the factory-style solid cloth industry and industry and trade integration of the scale of business outlets, T / R polyester-wool polyester fabric sales in the spring fabric was still smooth, many varieties of interactive transactions, Orders are still bulk to undertake. T / R polyester-viscose wool-like fabric is still smooth in the spring. The T / R65 / 35 yarn, T / R80 / 20 yarn 30S, 32S, 40S are the main raw materials. Single serge, double-sided serge, satin serge, toothpick serge, color yarn serge, striped serge, edge serge, flash serge, tribute silk, the board it and four-in-one T / R65 / 35 yarn-like spring The local stock is relatively smooth, conventional varieties of spot prices basically stable, but some bulk orders due to processing squeeze and other factors, prices are still slightly higher.
In recent days, the spring-like wool suits, trousers fabric spot transactions remained smooth, orders to undertake local increase, the price basically stabilized, creative fabrics in the stability of the local show a slight upward trend. Part of the former shop after the factory-style solid cloth industry and trade integration of the scale of business stores spring-like wool suits, trousers fabrics are still bulk orders to undertake. However, due to the close of the year-end, the turnover of domestic demand continued to decline, while the demand of foreign counterparts also decreased. The traditional spot market of T / R polyester / viscose fabrics decreased, and the daily turnover still declined.
(From texleader website)
MFW Trend: Camel Coats
OCCASIONALLY an old faithful hits the runway and you somehow pass over it. Camel coats are nothing new, and easily pushed from the spotlight as bolshier red shearling and baby blue patent iterations get the front row snapping - but take a second glance.
