Jeremy Laing offers quite the Canadian bragging rights. As a Toronto-based designer, showing in NY, his slick urbanwear stands up to the best of NY – and that may be an understatement.
For fall, he tightened the silhouette with a constricted play on volume. There were drop-waisted satin dresses, Alaia-esque body hugging minis, and a mean-cut trousers and pantsuit that looked more appropriate for the after hour set than the boardroom. Like many of his contemporaries this season, there was a thread of 20s, 30s art deco running through the collection, albeit interpreted with seaming, folding, and pin tucking for a truly modern execution.
At times, it felt slightly more suited for spring than fall, but it was alluring in that it was pretty without being precious. With the models’ hair slicked away from their faces, they resembled urban mermaids, emerging from an afternoon downtown sun shower. That said, wearing these clothes, I doubt it would be difficult to find a man – or woman – that wouldn’t hand over an umbrella.
