NYFW A/W 2015/16 - Luxe Minimalism and Graphics Logos

Fashion Week is my favourite time of the year; when social media is off the roof with all the frow hashtags, flashing street style and fresh new trends. Besides tanking up on coffee and wearing the best of the best, the drama and spontaneity of work can be totally taxing as well as exhilarating. 

We do always try and handpick our favourite collections and talk about the details. More often than not they are the ones that lead the trends of the upcoming seasons.   

So far The Row & Marc by Marc Jacobs are our favourites from the AW 2015/16 version.

The Row

Even if I keep aside the fact that I have followed Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen’s work for a while now, this collection has beaten my obsession hollow. 

It was a very New Yorker moment right out of the books of fashion and movies. I could literally see the twins gliding through Park Avenue wearing slip-ons and straight tailored leather coats.  

The unfettered pant-suits have probably made The Row customer a corporate junkie overnight. Oversize shapes and the fuss free silhouette was mixed to the right degree of seriousness. And it was actually at the corner of where comfort met elegance next to a soft duffle bag placed very strategically. I could just not get enough of how comfortable the entire runway looked in this universe of minimalism. Knotted leather belts over seductive silk robes and flared trousers were the right way to be more superfine. I was excited knowing that this woman is going to town looking luxe chic and slightly more distinguished than the rest of the crowd. Super sharp tailoring and a refined colour palette is just what I was looking for on this runway.   

Marc by Marc Jacobs

Unique and Fresh; that’s what the Marc by Marc Jacobs collections have seemingly become synonymous with customary seasonal persistence. 

The presentation for Fall 2015 was a perfectly well balanced mix of much-needed artistic singularity and the pragmatic subtleties that are now the norm for ready to wear. The quirks that were the colourful graphics, slogans and tropical florals placed with the tailored basics like the black shirts, denims, coats, etc. accounted for this balance. The leitmotif of the show was an artsy rebel wherein the messy hair was topped by berets, black in everything interspersed with vivid colours, prints and patterns. There was an optimal restraint which contextualised in the ingenuity that manifested in silhouette like the maxis, skirts- long and others blown up like a tutu with a lace underlining- and playful prints that were contained as to give requisite limelight to all that was quintessential and modest. In the midst of the uniform spectacle that fashion weeks are this one definitely manages to stand-out and at the same time pertain to the model code of commercial viability. 

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