“Is volume the new shape?” questioned Menkes as she pondered over the fact that “designers this season have mostly focused on the long, thin and shapely. But a Saint Martin’s graduate is supposed to be ahead of the curve,” to finally conclude that “the future of fashion is straight, square and huge.”
Pakistan has already grown quite fed up of the tent-like voluminous look which has been en vogue for over four years now, with many women criticising the loose heavy look for the yards and yards of fabric that it requires. As the new kid on the block, Mohsin Ali, pointed out: women who are pregnant or post-partum or just too plain lazy to work out, have loved the cover-up that loose forms provide, but the young (and fit) are itching to move beyond the sacks. “The next trend to hit us will be a ‘v’ line,” predicts Ali. “The hemlines would converge in a ‘v’ up front and the sleeves would be batwing.”
Milan Fashion Week unfolded against continuing turmoil surrounding the British designer, John Galliano, and his suspension from Christian Dior, after a drunken incident in a Paris bar and an ongoing police investigation. The scandal sent a shock wave through the fashion world, and has been the hot topic of conversation around the catwalks, as press and buyers attempt to unravel the conflicting reports emerging.
In the absence, thus far, of any further statement from Dior, where Galliano has been creative director since 1996, the fate of the Christian Dior autumn/winter 2011 showing on March 4 – one of the highlights of this week’s Paris prêt-à-porter season – appears to hang in the balance