If there was one backlash that the minimalist movement of fall had this season, it was the ominous white that had befallen on New York. Thankfully, Suno was amazing in every way possible, the greatest being able to cleverly predict the future, so as to capitalize on this creativity white-wash (a term that is so often used now, there's hardly a need to have quotation marks).
The designer duo of Max Osterweis and Erin Beatty managed to hit all the right notes of what a Spring collection should be. Incorporating the many different traditional Kenya kanga fabrics that were made in artisanal factories in the African nation, this collection had charmingly infiltrated every nook and cranny of my mind, subtly exerting its power and sending me off into delirious obsession. The references were not literal, it wasn't that banal tribal African look that had been done to death. Instead the clothes had an quirky, off-kitler quality that resembled a good ole' fashion collection. The skilled mix of prints and fabrics only added on to the hype that the duo might just be the new big thing to refresh the New York scene. Maybe it already has. No, that's a definite.
Perhaps this is the direction that I would taking on for Spring and justifies my inner print mixing that has been suppressed for far too long. It wasn't contrived, nor was it insanely hard to carry off. Now, is there any designer out there who is daring enough to create such prints for men? Seriously, maybe it's time for all of us to unleash our hidden print addiction.
