Styles · An idea under Avant-garde
All black for women
Monochrome black dressing with rich texture play: wool, leather, cupro and coated canvas.
Dressing in all black builds an outfit from one colour, so cut and texture do the work that pattern would.
Mixing wool, leather, silk and cotton keeps the black from looking flat. Japanese designers who began showing in Paris in the early eighties made black their main colour, in loose, oversized and frayed clothes. Rick Owens, who started his label in Los Angeles in nineteen ninety four and has shown in Paris since two thousand three, is known for drape and bias cuts, and Pleats Please Issey Miyake, launched in nineteen ninety three, makes pieces that are pleated after they are sewn. Helmut Lang made its name in the nineties with a plain, utilitarian minimalism.
WDLT117 in Toronto brings black dresses from Coperni, RUOHAN, Avavav and Helmut Lang, and Undercover tailoring. Utopia in Toronto brings Rick Owens cargo pants in heavy faille.
