Ready-to-wear is a term that might seem like sophisticated fashion jargon
to some, but it’s as simple as what it sounds like. The idea behind
ready-to-wear, or pret-a-porter as the French call it, is that it’s
clothing meant to require little alteration as most standard sizes fit
people. It is something you could pull right off the rack and wear
immediately.
In high fashion, designers often come under scrutiny for creating looks
that are unwearable or not functional, but this New York Fashion Week, it
was all about the wearable and functional glamour.
Acclaimed evening wear designer Carmen Marc Valvo proved that he had many
more tricks up his sleeve aside from a dress for an upscale dinner party or
red carpet event. The designer presented a collection of elegantly
patterned cocktail dresses and resort style looks that proved that even
though evening wear is his area of expertise he can design for anyone.
Tory Burch kept it preppy of course, with her always functional and stylish
collection for that uptown girl. Caftans and skirts in grey perforated
leather were some of the signature highlights of this collection, proving
that fashion done with the proper details and less common ready-to-wear
pieces like caftans are functional, it’s just all about knowing how to wear
them.
NYFW proves luxury fashion can also be functional
Diesel Black Gold Creative Director Andreas Melbostad drew inspiration for
the brand’s spring/summer 2016 collection from something incredibly
functional: an image of a girl wearing her boyfriend’s button down shirt as
a dress. Of course, despite the inspiration from a shirt as a dress,
Melbostad had all the classic Diesel staples like leather biker jackets and
denim, two pieces that are signatures in the average American wardrobe
(everyone knows they secretly want a leather biker jacket.) The approach to
the construction of the collection was to take scarf-like squares of
cotton-shirting like fabric and attach it to slip dresses and skirts. While
everything wasn’t wear right out of your house easy, there were many pieces
that were certainly streetwear ready, especially for the unconventional
streets of New York City.
Stacey Bendet of Alice and Olivia, drew her inspiration from the desert.
While the concept may sound absolutely ludicrous at first, it was a
collection that was very boho chic, and the boho look is virtually always
functional. There’s no easier way to make luxury fashion comfortable than
the boho look.
The collection included hand-embroidered skirts, off the shoulder tops and
gowns, and chiffons and ruffles which added detail to Bendet’s “goddess
gowns.” While the collection was very high fashion with the eccentric
patterns inspired by contemporary artist Francesco Clemente’s work of
desert flowers and butterflies. Bendel also made sure to include plenty of
black and white, the most functional of all colors, because that’s what her
customers are always in demand for.
High fashion doesn’t always have to mean it can’t function. It’s all about
constructing that wearability into your clothes, which many designers this
season managed to perfectly balance that foothold between the elaborate
construction of luxury wear and making sure that clothes can still work for
many occasions or be easily wearable. Wild creative vision does sometimes
have to succumb to making sure a garment can sell, but those pieces that
are made to sell are made well.
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