Pringle, Spring/Summer '08 (scroll down to read the review)
Knitwear in summer can be hard commercially; it’s just too heavy and
much too warm. That’s a great excuse then for Pringle’s Creative
Director Claire Waight Keller to exhibit her skills in tailoring (or
wovens as they are called). That meant fabulous short sleeved
bombers, great wide leg obi-waist pants, cropped trousers and a
succession of easy summer dresses, including the shape she has
already made her own; the sleeveless trapeze hung from a slim yoke.
The colours (sulphur yellow, palm green and ribbon red combined with
stone, oyster and honey) as well as the brush-stroked prints, seem to
come from the St Ives school of modernist British Art. Abstract
pleats, on tops gave a sculptural look and ribbons, stitched
asymmetrically gave the same to whisper thin knits.
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