Very military-chic, if that's a thing. It is now. It was menswear, writ large for ladies — oversized jackets, giant belt buckles, and patent leather boots with chunky heels. Still, it was far from shapeless, and lots of the separates look extremely wearable. As in, get on my body right now.
A Calvin Klein collection under creative director Francisco Costa's watch has a certain familiar rhythm. There are the black clothes, and the white clothes. There is the blank minimalist rigor. There is exactly the one black model.
Well, there's one person who's not on board with plus-sized models getting shot by V, French Elle, and French Vogue, and walking for designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier and Mark Fast. Illustrator/photographer/blogger Garance Doré thinks body diversity is "not physically healthy."
A piece on The Huffington Post points out that in addition to the gray-hair trend, (gray-haired) 43-year-old Kristen McMenamy and 47-year-old Elle Macpherson have graced recent fashion runways. The headline asks: "Are 'Older' Models The New Black?"
Francisco Costa's Fall 2010 collection continued his explorations with shape and volume - with CK's characteristic minimalism, of course. Emphasizing the 90s vibe, the show featured venerable supermodels Stella Tennant, Kristen McMenamy and Kirsty Hume - and tons of stars.
What would a 90s revival be without a liberal dose of Calvin Klein minimalism? Francisco Costa has claimed this line was based on CK's famed spring 1994 collection - and the influence is obvious. So is the rumpling.
Calvin Klein, as we all know, is renowned for his classic minimalism. Francisco Costa's spring line was distinctively CK, but not necessarily his most wearable: it was aggressively architectural, and while some of the origami-like pieces, in their muted white, nude and cobalt palette, were very pretty, others just…
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) just announced the nominees for its annual awards (think: the Oscars of the fashion industry), and, as reported earlier, Marc Jacobs nabbed a prestigious Womenswear Designer of the Year nod. But considering the fact that his peers spent the past year harping on him…
