CUTTING A DEAL

Garments sliced and slivered add sex appeal to athletic luxury. Twenty years ago Tom Ford sent out a collection that ended with a series of white jersey dresses with cutaways revealing the hips and clavicle. One critic commented that it “lit the fuse of the sex bomb”, thrusting the 90s from an era of grunge to one of seduction. These rules live on, as seen at Dion Lee and Hugo Boss by Jason Wu, and at Alexander Wang, who called his spring/ summer ’17 collection “50 Shades of Grey meets Lords of Dogtown” for its clingy swimwear-esque looks that emerged straight from the surf and into the bar. ZW