I was pretty much ready to run around on the streets wearing nothing but an elongated bra and a pair of silk shorts after seeing Clare Tough's S/S 10 collection. It would have been something like a crazy spoof of a Lenor advert or something. Me waddling around (waddling being the operative word post Hong Kong food binging...) in a delicate bra and shorties through a green green meadow (note of the TWO greens) could only have been induced by the prettiness that I saw at the press day.
On top of her intepretation of knits for the summer, an accomplishment that many knitwear designers are overcoming with much competence, she's also expanded her range of underwear aka pretty delicate things that you would want to gratuitously show off as more than just underwear.
Tough had me fantasising about Wham!-esque cabin fires, chunky knits and undewear underneath last season (to complete the cliche, I think there might have been a box of Ferrero Rocher somewhere in the picture) and quite rightly the knits are still there for S/S 10 albeit lighter and sheerer with an emphasis on embroidery and mosaic beading to add weight...
...to the sheerness of the knits... here's an instance where I'd be inclined NOT to layer away and to just let the light flood in through the sheer knit.
As well as plays with opacity, Tough has created knitwear that as opposed to keeping one warm, uses the chunky yarn as an embellishment in itself with this draped rope motif...
... then to balance out the abundance of prettiness in this collection of Lenor ad-ready frolics, some very thin and soft leather strips have been woven together for these skirts and short shorts...
