Under Constructions looked to their over 25 market and saw the 80’s and Japanese minimalism staring back at them. Designers Jill Crabb and Helen Miraudo opened the collection with several lace pieces and looks. Giving us a number of lace looks that incorporated some of the big trends of last season, hoods and sleeveless tops. The overall result is the tops and looks were too 80’s, like the sleeveless and hooded all lace pullover with no backing or lining. As the collection progressed Crabb and Miraudo added more tailored pieces. The focus of these pieces was to air on the minimal side of design. One of the strongest pieces in this section was olive green skirt with a silkscreen print of three belts in a cream white. The look was finished with a black lace wrap top.

In many of the other looks the tailoring is really loose on the models. The sizing or fitting is actually too loose. I am not sure if that is the look the duo was going for in hopes the UC customer could see that the clothes could be worn in larger sizes. While they did show a few prints in the collection, none of them really jumped out. The must have piece from the collection is the white jersey long sleeve top with a wrapped waist worn with a dark olive green silk knee length skirt. I could see that Crabb and Miraudo’s reference to shapes synonymous to Garcons and Miyake but the overall execution of the looks is lacking proportion and structure. Overall it felt like a bad version of Project Runway.

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