Wool is bringing sexy back
National Post - September 16 2006
The sweater dress is the dress for fall. It's probably part of the "protective, refuge-seeking" vibe that permeated the Fall collections. It's definitely a shift away from the beribboned, ruffled Lolitas and the prim, pencil-skirted Edwardian damsels we've seen tumbling around the trend spin cycles in the past few seasons.In collection after collection, from Marc Jacobs to Stella McCartney, cozy knit dresses and outsized, thigh-skimming cardigans seemed to multiply on the body before the audiences' eyes: popcorn knits atop cable knits; knitted tunics atop ribbed tights.
At Prada, authoritative warrior women on the march were swathed in layers of knits. Prada showed models wearing wool bras on top of cashmere sweater dresses. Call it glam meets grunge (Glunge? Gram? Vote now). [more]
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