Pearls threaded through the collection – as twisted rope chokers, appliquéd as flat adornment on necklines and around pockets on clean tailoring and full prom skirts.
MaxMara went sporty, on the urban side, with clean tailoring and a taut silhouette spiked with lemon yellow, orange and red.
Her closet, filled with pieces by Prada, Marni and Rochas, reflects a penchant for pops of color, lush fabrics, refined prints and clean tailoring — the same attributes that separate Caramel from other kiddie companies.
Along with his wife, Kathie; his son, Barry; and his daughter-in-law, Jennifer, Barone cleans, tailors and presses the wears for both local football teams, as well as the Philadelphia Eagles.
For one, designers like Raf Simons of Jil Sander and Phoebe Philo of Céline have modestly narrowed their vision to a clean, dynamic tailoring, and as such have had a major influence on the industry.
Stella McCartney and Phoebe Philo have been friends, colleagues and rivals over the past 15 years at Paris fashion week, but today's Stella McCartney collection showed the two British designers united, at least in their vision for what women want to wear next: clean, linear tailoring creating a slim, boxy silhouette in classic shades of camel, black, charcoal, navy and white.
While this may well be idle gossip, it will not go unnoticed that this collection was particularly feminine, particularly romantic and featured clean, beautiful tailoring and knockout red carpet gowns – all the characteristics of Burton's work that would make her an asset at Dior.
All the more reason to cut them and create a lean, clean bill tailored to creating jobs.
FIFTY years ago this month, General Motors cast off the overchromed tailfinned excesses of its postwar auto designs and shocked the Paris auto salon by slipping into a clean, crisply tailored new suit.
Banks or Brooks Bros. suit for $10, having it professionally cleaned and tailored ($60-$60-$100d then walking around in $1000 worth of suit.
And so the contrasts continued: The lineup of male models, their silhouettes slim and straight below short, oiled hair at the Raf Simons show, was set against the metallic escalator of a bank — the better to trace the slim, clean lines of tailoring that the designer has never done better.
