Menswear influences get a laid-back update.
There's nothing new about women borrowing sartorial style cues from menswear, from Coco Chanel's irreverent pioneering of a more androgynous look for women with her initial menswear-inspired separates, to Yves Saint Laurent's groundbreaking Le Smoking tux debut in 1966.
Present-day designers have also reinforced a tomboyish silhouette, redefining the look for a modern generation. Stella McCartney's cleancut pant suits and oversized coats touch on her formal training received from Edward Sexton, Paul McCartney's celebrated Savile Row tailor.
Today, those ideas of "man-style" and "boyfriend" dressing are quickly becoming irrelevant terms in an industry seeing a shift in attitudes to the blurred menswear lines at Rick Owens and new kid on the block J.W. Anderson, to new gender-neutral pop-up spaces at Selfridges.
While the PC police might have a field day with this new frontier, the fact remains that classic shapes initially attributed to menswear have well and truly made an impact in womenswear for all the right reasons over the decades.
