Even Nicolas Ghesquière, with his much-anticipated first collection for Louis Vuitton, showed wearable styles with polish: trim coats, '60s-cut minis, modest accessories.
Jeffrey Chow felted wool flannel jersey dress, $1,100, and ribbon- trimmed coat, $1,900.
Covered up, highly bourgeois knee-length dresses and fur trimmed coats suggested womanly sensuality rather than girlish flirtatiousness at Prada, while cat's-eye glasses evoked brains as well as beauty.
A new departure was a trim cashmere coat and a caped knit.
Three women, each dressed in a trim, colored coat, each wearing a pert hat, are passing the time on a bench, seated side by side.
At Saks Fifth Avenue, the style pops with color, in the form of a deep-red polished cotton raincoat by Michael Kors ($1,195), as well as a trim teal coat by Marc Jacobs ($1,295).
I clutched a few inches of the silk flag and glanced across it, where a dour Turk in his sixties wore an elegant, trim sports coat and a white straw fedora.
In show trim, the coat is kept short on the body, but the fur on the ears, legs, belly, and face is retained.
There is some debate whether you should do this before or after you trim its coat.
Moreover, it is felt that further improvements are attainable with subtle improvement of the design of the trim and coating processes to allow complete coating of critical components with complex design.
