Dressed in a black Hermès blazer, Theory pants and a semi-sheer Biya shirt (all on loan), Ms. Allen was sporting attire that was a far cry from Marion's baggy brown duds or the casual, colorful fabrics she personally favors.
Telescope Casual's fabric Mini-Sun Chaise adjusts to four positions, including entirely flat, using a mechanism housed inside the wooden armrests, specially designed not to pinch the fingers.
One problem pointed up by Alexander McQueen's overwrought show on Saturday was that deconstruction without a light hand -- and without the casual use of fabrics like denim and cotton -- looks like old business.
The Dries Van Noten show was built on a premise of opposites: wintry-looking coats, but in gauze-weight fabrics; casual pants with formal jackets; and materials like raw silk that seemed an unlikely fit with the Belgian designer's inspiration in 1970s street culture.
"You should have another style — not so casual — in this fabric," he instructed the team.
Yet it was not clear on the garden path runway who would really wear these casual clothes in fancy fabrics that brought water marks to a silken jacket or a cascade of fringe to a suede jacket.
Owens, a forty-six-year-old California native, whose deceptively casual designs combine luxury fabrics — ostrich, gazar, organza, and pleated eelskin — with meticulous, highly unconventional construction, has become the foremost purveyor of what he has called "glunge" (grunge plus glamour).
Owens, a forty-six-year-old California native, whose deceptively casual designs combine luxury fabrics—ostrich, gazar, organza, and pleated eelskin with meticulous, highly unconventional construction, has become the foremost purveyor of what he has called "glunge" (grunge plus glamour).
Bonobos, based in New York, has found a simple product that sells — that is, casual dress trousers in fabrics like lightweight wool, corduroy and cashmere that cost $110 to $310; and, most important, that fit a man's legs and seat more like jeans do, courtesy of a novel curved waistband, a medium rise, a narrow-cut thigh and a couple of well-placed darts above each cheek.
