Second, below-the-knee lengths are sticking around – Beckham is pushing the look, so were Hilfiger and DVF.
There are silks and lace, and kimono-style dresses in flattering, just-below-the-knee lengths, and elegant lightweight trench coats and macs.
Aside from below-the-knee lengths, the change is asymmetry and volume; the soft lantern shapes at Ohne Titel were in that vein.
Below-the-knee lengths surfaced on many runways, but the Alaïa dresses and skirts make a vivid impression for being almost jaunty.
At London fashion week, the new below-the-knee length was modelled by Samantha Cameron, in a mid-calf-length skirt by Christopher Kane.
Recalling Judd Nelson's thrift-store coat at the end of The Breakfast Club, outerwear at London Collections Men was all about the below-the-knee length.
Prairie Underground's black below-the-knee-length zip-up dress/jacket with pronounced seams ($198), made in Seattle, is a stylish take on a sweatshirt.
"My hair is my best feature," Ms. Gerson, who is in her 50's, said of her thick strawberry-blond, a little-below-the-shoulder-length mane, which she compacts with a flatiron a few times a week.
Elements in this Céline collection – the naive cut of the coat collars, the just-below-the-knee-length skirts, the soft shell pinks – chimed with Prada, in a way that may indicate romance, intimacy and femininity, and may come to be repeated around the echo chambers of fashion.
I usually spend a good five minutes ripping through the knots in my well-below-the-shoulder-length hair (which, I realize, just makes the problem worse in the long run).
