Gucci's Tom Ford deliberately described the theme of his new collection as "uniforms, not military". In a period when relatively few young people in Western societies do active military service, there is an esthetic attraction for trim clothes that are the antithesis of sloppy sportswear.
Make sure your nails are trimmed, your clothes are clean and pressed, your breath smells good, and your hair is neat.
This means that outsourcing hotspots like Bangladesh – now second only to China in the "cut, make and trim" (CMT) clothes-making process – with a surplus of cheap (mainly female) labour, is now engaged in produced fashion when at best it has capacity for basic garments with longer lead times.
By the time they hit the runway, their hair was trimmed and their clothes even trimmer.
So in the months to come shoppers can expect to find clothes trimmed with feathers, mirrors, shells, beads and flowers.
The beard was trim, the clothes finer.
At Z Zegna, solar panels, inspired by the art work of Dan Flavin, were not just on the trim, military clothes — changing, iridescent effects also appeared in the fabrics themselves.
Deanna Berg's trim dance clothes were casually elegant, and Carol Mullins's lighting worked with Douglas Henderson's droning, pushing score for cello and drums to create much-needed atmosphere.
With gender-neutral silhouettes and elaborate finishes like velvet buttons and ruffled trim, his clothes blur the boundaries between classic menswear tailoring and the elegant flourishes found in high-end womenswear.
With gender-neutral silhouettes and elaborate finishes like velvet buttons and ruffled trim, his clothes blur the boundaries between classic menswear tailoring and the elegant flourishes found in high-end womenswear.
