Milan fashion week

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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