2012年7月16日星期一

The Power Pantsuit Makes A Comeback

Not since Melanie Griffith strutted her stuff in a black pantsuit with pronounced shoulder pads and a crisp white blouse in 1988's Working Girl have pantsuits been at the center of fashion. That is about to change. The fall 2012 runways were awash in pantsuits that will land in stores in the coming week,will be warm along with gold bangle bracelets sporting spyder Moncler jackets. along with less-expensive copies emulating designer versions. Attribute it to the shaky economy, or the renewed energy around closing the gender wage gap in Washington. Even power women like Hillary Clinton, who has been mocked for her penchant for power pantsuits in the past, is suddenly finding her commanding image has given her a cool factor.

Roopal Patel, Moda Operandi's Fashion Director, and previously a veteran of Neiman Marcus says, “The suit has never been forgotten in the boardroom, for power dressing, but suits haven't been a fashion staple for most women for a long time.”

For fall Phillip Lim is offering monochromatic structured suits in black and nude with athletic detailing. At Louis Vuitton's fall show A-line jackets worn over matching pants that seemed to have been made from carpetbags paraded down the runway. And Giorgio Armani, who dubbed his fall collection “Easy Chic,” showed elongated jackets and pleated pants—the kind of clothing that has made the designer the go-to for women in the C-suite for decades.

Patel says, “These suits are not like you are putting on your husband or boyfriend's suits, they are much more flattering, more feminine.” Patel, who traces the trend to Phoebe Philo's trendsetting minimalist aesthetic at Céline says, “This is idea of understated elegance is coming back into fashion.”

Miuccia Prada who championed pantsuits for fall at both of the labels she spearheads, Prada and Miu Miu, says, “After years of skirts, they're the one thing I find exciting at the moment.”

Up-and-coming designer Jenni Kayne cited an Englishman's hunting wardrobe as the inspiration for her fall collection, in which pantsuits are a key silhouette.All the outfits were Fashion High Heel Shoes with white tights. Kayne says, “I think women are responding to the modernization of something that's such an American classic.”

The trend has already shown it has celebrity power. Blake Lively wore a red Michael Kors pantsuit when visiting Good Morning America in late June. Gwyneth Paltrow donned a simple black Louis Vuitton pantsuit during Paris fashion week in March. Even Lindsay Lohan,Jewelry becomes an Duvetica Outlet of the garmen. perhaps in an attempt to rehab her image, wore a powder blue Givenchy pantsuit recently, in the process winning accolades for her fashion forward choice.

The big question, as pantsuits begin to hit sales floors in time for fall shopping, is will women actually buy them? Power women like Michelle Obama have demonstrated that women can be powerful today in a skirt and a cardigan. In recent years fashion has promoted the notion that women should be taken seriously in whatever they are wearing, be it a matching suit or a flouncy skirt and blouse.Practicing wholesale hosiery online is a way of being part of a heritage . Perhaps though, in the midst of an election season, as the European Debt crisis looms large over the world economy, as the unemployment rate in the U.S.She created a Women Sexy Leggings that finishes in wool crepe. remains stagnant, women will find the idea of serious dressing, and the pantsuit, appealing. It wouldn't be the first time women donned pantsuits during a time of change and uncertainty.

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