The Spring 2016 collection marks Alexander Wang's 10th anniversary as the energetic and streetwise designer with the endless cool factor built into his clothes from a NY inflected L.A. sensibility. This time around though, his more laid back, Los Angeles tendencies lent an aura of relaxed looseness that came across too casual and not fashion. It felt lively and fresh, with athletic influences abounding all over, but an aura of the lackadaisical and, in a bad way, effortless suffused this outing with a far too downmarket feeling. The collection lacked invention, it was sporty, and yes for it's time, pushing all the right buttons, but even by 2016 standards, there was nothing to truly fire the imagination and cause a buyer to earmark pieces from this collections as "Must-Haves"
Where this collection did succeed was that it did have in many places, a superior focus on how the juxtaposition of those more casual elements, when contrasted against something more "Fashion" made a compelling High-Low argument that in lesser skilled hands could have seemed clumsy and maladroit. Especially apt in this association was the track jacket paired with a Satin slip gown near the end of the collection and the deep sanguine red eelskin leather moto jacket paired with "Striped" trousers in fabric and leather. Both of these exhibited a true "FASHION": sensibility while still remaining the utmost in cool. However, to say that those pieces were enough to keep this collection from being something of an underwhelming affair. Wang may have been enthused with his "No concept" theme, but the proceedings most assuredly would have benefited from a more focused hand and less easygoing vibe.
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