Mr. van Hove's naked apes would be more compelling with clothes.
But these were compelling new clothes — precise in the tailoring of a long, dark coat and in jackets fitted to the spine and then flaring into a rounded tail.
As it happens, Mr. Altuzarra delivered a very compelling bunch of clothes, one of the most polished collections he has shown in a while.
SO compelling are the clothes featured on the mannequins in "Alexander McQueen Savage Beautyy," the current show at the Met's Costume Institute, that it was difficult to imagine how to top them off.
The designer brings a compelling energy to clothes that have one platform-soled boot planted in traditional sportswear and the other in layered street style, making Mr. Wang a rare designer straddling the American heritage and its future.
At the same time, the clothes were compelling and wearable.
Yet even in this month, when designers are strutting their wares on runways all over New York, there's unlikely to be a more compelling demonstration of how clothes make the woman than the one provided by Ms. Packer, a longtime, multifarious interpreter of Shakespeare.
A larger question is whether Mr. Adrover's clothes have a compelling story to tell.
The artisan-made clothing I fell in love with in Brazil, and the conversations it led to in California, made me think clothes could tell compelling, colorful stories on topics like ethics, the environment, economics, and art.
What is it that's so compelling about famous people's old clothes?
