WOMEN COLLECTIONS AUTUMN/WINTER 2017.18
“We will not be silenced”, “” or “I am an immigrant” are some of the statements reproduced on Prabal Gurung’s T-shirts; the day after his show, some of the most famous fashion bloggers and influencers, including Tina Craig and Aimee Song, were proudly wearing them on the street around New York Fashion Week. The fashion world’s and soon became a trend here in New York, with many T-shirts sporting , mainly lauding feminism, similar to the ones (like Dior’s) seen last season in Paris. And this political message turned trend for a , energetic and sensual even got its own hashtag in the New York Times: “If trends spawn hashtags, call this beauty movement the ”. Never mind that these are the winter shows; this is the spring of women yelling at the new US President and the entire world that ‘power is female’. As Bee Shapiro’s article in the New York Times affirmed: “There’s a new power woman in town, and she’s not afraid to to her liking.” Here is the new American woman, even stronger and more inspired after last January’s march on Washington, politically engaged, with her feet planted firmly on the ground, but and open to the future. This perhaps explains why she likes a certain and style, with floral and coats and dresses in menswear fabrics with a and . Female power that does not need to sacrifice shape; on the contrary, it emphasises it with , tight-fitting clothes and , , and lustrous materials, such as , to enhance the silhouette. It’s no wonder that several designers made reference to eras in which the female form was appreciated in all its ‘fullness’,
