The traditional business elements communicate to corporate clients the wearer is grounded and reliable, while the eccentricities – the bright patterns, oversized accessories or super casual shoes – differentiate them from a typical worker-drone.
The faceoff was seen even in a choice of flower prints: Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy had oversized T-shirts patterned with bird of paradise blooms, their stamens pointing suggestively upward.
Located next door to a primary school, it has an appropriately fairytale quality with its pitched roof, over which the oversized brickwork pattern runs like wallpaper.
At Henri Bendel, Bernhard Willhelm has fashioned baby alpaca into a yellow and black crewneck in an oversized argyle pattern ($458), while Bendel's private label has spun the look into a fitted cardigan (right; $248).
They sold clothes designed by friends, their own hoodie sweatshirts with an oversized diamond pattern (Leon's mother, Wendy, helped sew them), and apparel and tchotchkes that they lugged home from marathon shopping trips to Hong Kong.
However, it leads to oversized design.
Although there might be the occasional bold, oversized, painterly patterned sweater, the focus was mostly on skinny tailoring.
6 p.m. 7) BROWSING FOR GOLD Avoid the tacky T-shirt shops on Main Street and search out Vintage Snow (226 South Main Street; 970-453-2447), a new store where you can find classic skiing sweaters from the 1950s through '70s (think lots of oversized snowflake patterns and horizontal rainbow stripes) and a mint-condition 1982 Burton snowboard made of wood ($1,100).
The tachometer and speedometer are oversized, with chrome rims and a pattern reminiscent not of something rugged and outdoorsy but of a chronometer you might use to time splits at a race track.
It came not just with the tiny kilt skirts that partnered oversized knits but also in the intarsia patterns.
Prediction of produced boulders (oversized crushed rocks) is a key parameter in designing blast patterns.
