The four weeks of the Fall 2013 show season are over, the shiny people have returned to their working environments to do their jobs (do they have these?), the street style photographers have snapped enough photos of Anna Dello Russo wearing inappropriately scant clothing-slash-ri-DICK-ulous outfits for another six months of posts, and we know what we'll be wearing come November.
There were two trends that put their well-heeled foot forward (fashion dad joke!) in New York, London, Paris and Milan this time around, the first being a new kind of minimalism. Whether it's the global economic climate or our current cultural fascination with all things dystopian (Cloud Atlas for starters anyone?), designers like Raf Simons at Dior and Miuccia Prada for Miu Miu presented stern collections, the latter being a literal interpretation of the garb worn during pre-WWII austerity. Hell, even Karl Lagerfeld seemed to develop a social conscious with the, ah, giant globe that was his set's centrepiece. On the flipside, Marc Jacobs wore his pyjamas to work, an indication that he's either A) been working really hard and didn't have time to change OR B) he's currently channeling Courtney Love (Love, in typically bitchy fashion, shunned Jacobs in favour of Saint Laurent's collection) and company's recruitment of sleepwear-as-daywear throughout the nineties. Considering Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane, Rodarte, Givenchy and more walked this way for Fall, the latter seems to be in play. Furthermore, and - segway! - because we're obsessed with the nineties, many of those look feature in our favourites from the season, which you can check out below.
1) Christopher Kane
Camo, fur, velvet: Kane recruited all textural talismen of the nineties, as well as a few of the silhouettes - kilts, cropped jackets, cardigan coats - to create a Fall 2013 collection that - despite grungy beginnings - ended up channeling a similarly Louis Vuitton, opulent bedroom vibe. Talk about reflecting the zeitgeist.
2) Dries Van Noten
And you thought you'd never wear skirts over pants again.
3) Givenchy
Last season Dries Van Noten took the top Use of Prints spot, but for Fall 2013 that accolade undoubtedly goes to Richard Tisci over at Givenchy. Look at that double-shirt-skirt combo!
4) Karen Walker
I've been waiting for so long for Karen Walker to ditch the shift dress and return to her alternative, grungy (read 'Dust') roots, that this collection makes me so happy: oversized knitwear, the perfect coat, herringbone smocks! Heathermary Jackson did an excellent job on styling duties, too. Hopefully the topknotted, Chuck Taylor and denim short-wearing army do not follow suit.
5) Kenzo
It's a foregone conclusion that this is going to be good season-on-season, right?
6) Louis Vuitton
I don't even care what you say Courtney Love: I want to be comfortable and look sexy simultaneously*.
*Harder than it looks.
7) Meadham Kirchhoff
The Meadham Kirchhoff designers should probably start designing all of the costumes for Tim Burton's films, and I mean that in the best possible way.
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