What was once a reason to add a delivery cycle for
manufacturers, has become a driving force in Fall sales. The “season” was invented to not only flow
merchandise to the selling floor, but for the designer to get some really
strong sellers into the stores early to insure good sell throughs.
That being said, Donna Karan has fulfilled all the
requirements and prerequisites to a tee.
For this early selling, she returns to what she does so well … salable
slick clothes for women who know what they like.
One cannot help but look at this collection
and see the evolution of her body of work from that very first eponymous
season. Ms. Karan shines when she keeps
it simple and razor sharp. In so many of
her collections, the philosophy seems to overpower the clothes rendering those
collections odious and highly questionable.
For pre fall, the silhouette is decidedly slim without being
unforgiving. The lines are pure and clean and almost geometric and no they
don’t look like what might be “referenced” by other designers. Ms. Karan has a menu that has always included
these clothes, she just manages to blur the lines between the really hard edged
to the softer sides and by doing so, she will make register sing soon enough.
As we used to say in the retail business, “get away from the
door, the clothes are flying out” and so they will when Donna does what she
does best.
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