Womenswear has also entered the Wales Bonner language, largely due to the fact that her earlier menswear collections were picked up
by womenswear stockists.
With designers designing for no particular sex and brands following, I decided to put together three looks that are inspired
by womenswear and crossover into menswear.
Not exact matches
Along with established international brands such as Louis Vuitton and Burberry moving in, a crop of homegrown fashion houses has emerged, including Maki Oh, a Nigerian
womenswear label that showed at New York Fashion Week in March, has been featured in Vogue and is worn
by American singer Azealia Banks.
Inspired
by playful prints and fabrics from Burberry's
womenswear collections, the limited - edition blush is set within a bold heart - print design fusing bright, matte pink shades with a softer pastel hue.
Burberry Autumn Winter 2015 Runway PaletteThe Burberry Autumn / Winter 2015 Makeup Collection was inspired
by the Burberry
Womenswear Autumn / Winter 2015 «Patchwork, Pattern, and Prints» collection.
What I loved reading was that Stephanie Chen, the director for
womenswear and accessories at the time, said that «Biba» had been positioned as «aspirational but accessible» and «driven
by attitude, not
by age».
If you're a petite gal and have experienced some of the same struggles, you need to check out Petite Studio — a
womenswear brand created
by and made for petites.
Marissa Webb is a New York - based
womenswear designer whose signature aesthetic blends and juxtaposes elements of architecture and nature
by mixing highly structured, tailored pieces with whimsical softness and flow.
If Anderson was looking for industry recognition, he has found it: Last year he was named both best menswear and
womenswear designer
by the British Fashion Council (he won in 2014 for menswear, in 2013 for new establishment and in 2012 for emerging talent).
The
womenswear collection features a mix of patterns and textures influenced
by British artists, musician and history.
Maison Martin Margiela oversaw creative direction of
womenswear for the French design house Hermès from 1997 until 2003, demonstrating his unexpected range as a designer
by showing collections focused on quality and timelessness, instead of the wild subversion and deconstruction of classic Hermès pieces the press was anticipating.
Born in 2015 and based in New York City, Petite Studio is the only online
womenswear brand for, of and
by petite girls.
In the first year of delivery, the project culminated in a catwalk collection and presentation, featuring menswear and
womenswear inspired
by the characters of Disney's Alice in Wonderland film, in Milan.
Subsequently, he became the first designer ever to receive consecutive
Womenswear Designer of the Year awards
by the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2002 and 2003.
Willow is the 16 - year - old face of Chanel Eyewear, while her brother Jaden has fronted a Louis Vuitton
womenswear campaign lensed
by Bruce Weber.
Jonathan Anderson, the most nominated designer of the night, took home awards for Accessories Designer of the Year for his work at Loewe, presented
by Amber Valletta, and British Designer of the Year for
Womenswear for his work at his namesake label, presented
by Zendaya.
That same year, he was awarded the Fashion Group International Rising Star award for
womenswear, followed
by the CFDA Swarovski Award in June.
(He expects 50 percent of the label's sales to come from
womenswear by 2018.)
BoF analysis of the four major fashion weeks highlights the ongoing gender inequality of the industry, with just 40 percent of
womenswear brands led
by female designers.
And Raf Simons, who won both the menswear and
womenswear designer awards earlier in the year at the CFDA Awards in New York, took home Designer of Year for his work at Calvin Klein, presented
by The xx's Oliver Sim.
In response, Wales Bonner has evolved to include a focused
womenswear and accessories line, recently endorsed
by collaborations with Manolo Blahnik and Stephen Jones.
This was the first Westwood
womenswear collection to which the name of Andreas Kronthaler was officially attached, a fact driven home
by electronic signs spelling out AVWK and VAWK respectively (the initials of Kronthaler and Westwood).
From his past
womenswear collections like «Granite» and «Basics,» to his new menswear collections like «Taintless,» are mostly inspired
by organic forms and the natural world.
Uptown at the The Met Cloisters, more than 150 ensembles — largely
womenswear, designed
by the likes of Cristóbal Balenciaga, John Galliano, and Donatella Versace — are exhibited alongside medieval art, positioning fashion design within the wider context of religious art production.
Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents «Principals of Design: Pratt Fashion Alumni,» an exhibition of haute couture,
womenswear, menswear, costume, and shoe and accessory designs
by 21 alumni from Pratt's Department of Fashion Design.
A leading contemporary
womenswear brand carried
by major retailers such as Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue was largely restricted to brick and mortar store sales and had limited data on existing customers.