LAYERED. Levi’s street style presentation.
FASHION’s next frontier—slouching toward nirvana in diaphanous dresses and louche knits, sculptural silhouettes takes a turn for the dramatic if you wish to wear them backward.
The SM Department Store was just about that when the label raised the curtain for the sixth installment of Glitteratti: Life in Technicolor along with other ready-to-wear fashion houses that would surely define your wardrobe in the next seven months. Combining sportswear and glamour still works after two years: perhaps, the longest trend to have survived fashion’s evanescent shelf life. Terranova had a good time reinventing it over and over—varsity tops with jogger pants rolled up to the calves.
Oh, calling, Gigi Hadid.
We’re bidding back-bending body cons now, which forgives us if this isn’t the season to obey Donatella Versace, the queen of anything ultra tight frocks, just yet. Look and feel.
Levi’s sent out a loose vermillion pullover to layer a shirt and completed the ensemble with its signature 504 athletic fit. It’s a personal preference, tailored to skim the legs with slim-straight tapering at its hemline unlike the unforgiving duo of skinny jeans. What rules? Cuffing it is always a matter of choice, but insiders will tell you that a good pair’s hems just sit at your ankle bone, or else, cuff them twice. Or else, wear shorts the way Plaza Italia likes it to look on their male customers: above-the-knee taupe city shorts paired with a yellow piquet shirt.
COMFORT COMBO. Espada t-shirt and cigarette trousers.
Another label offers women a different kind of comfort. Iora shift dresses are gift to women who enjoy after-office cocktails. Neoprene was Mango’s choice of materials with a slight sheering, but it still reserved s comfortable space for you to shift movements. A drape of scarf or statement earrings would do wonders to the wearer, even if she’s only wearing Espada’s cigarette trousers and t-shirts. Small but terrible, yes: an ensemble that caught Tom Ford stylist Carine Roitfeld in irony. In 2015, the French icon created a t-shirt line for Uniqlo after previously blaming the Americans for creating t-shirts.
You’d see more ladies in shorts and striped pullover from Promod. Others were creative by wrapping a Penshoppe sweater around the waist. Its plaid oversized t-shirts worn with dyed denim jumpers were the instant crowd favorite. Plains and Prints dazzled with tropical baby doll dress with wrap-around effect, an excellent match with Loalde men who walked down the runway with white jeans and tropical cotton shirts, too.
Forever 21 did paint the town with pastel tops—tangerine, maroon, pumpkin yellow—muted with blue bell-bottom jeans. Floral dresses covered up with denim jackets rendered a modern country-inspired twist.
As fashion transits into another suitcase of garments, be comforted by the idea that it’s now a party of everyone. “It should be about encouraging women to make the most of what they’ve got,” Harper’s Bazaar editor in chief Glenda Bailey tells her readers about the trends now. “I really don’t want to see people just wearing new looks head-to-toe every season. I just find that somebody who has lots of money, not lots of taste.”