The One Sentence Recap: Tanya Taylor, Zimmermann, Sally LaPointe & Rebecca Minkoff

Looking inside Tanya Taylor’s closet (legally) makes this collection so much clearer: the woman embraces color without fear while simultaneously keeping her cool, pairing cropped jacket/skirt combos with thigh high nylon socks under flatforms and stacked heels in an effort to keep her models warm.

If Zimmermann was a musical, it would be Annie Get Your Gun, Southern Hemisphere edition with its triangular neck scarves over signature chiffon paisley dresses, big-ass hats and overwhelming cut outs; although it might also fancy itself a loose meditation on the former half of the decade that shall not be named in some high waist skinny pants and Bianca Jagger-style coats.

Sally LaPointe was in no way military — though hers is a style that one could consistently tether “urban warrior” to — but it was impossible to not imagine the models as knights of the underground, stone-walled venue in which LaPointe shows, what with their chest shields of fur and tightly packed sequins that acted as armor rather than superfluous sparkle; and as for the tassels that swung from a skirt here, a shirt there (amid, of course, the sharp wool suiting and floor-length strapless tunics worn over trousers) they hinted, ever so subtly, at the fringe that hung from Prince Charming’s epaulettes. He was an officer, right?

If you’re not in the band but kind of want to be, appreciate deadpan fringe as much as Penny Lane did and know that the easiest way into fashion’s current heart is through the incorporation of at least one suede tuxedo, Rebecca Minkoff will speak to you like it is a dangnab Ted Talk.

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Vintage Image Shot By André Robé