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NEW ESSENTIALS
The idea of the uniform is one that is constantly shifting but one constant has always been the classic shirt. The white button-down is a staple of every wardrobe, but the elevated, luxurious versions shown by designers this season were anything but basic. Far from their masculine origins, these new takes on shirting felt instead fresh and feminine. and , for instance, have taken the idea of the modular wardrobe into new, exciting territories with clever, versatile layers. and ’s Chitose Abe, meanwhile, showed sumptuous white shirts that played with the concept of restraint and’s Pierpaolo Piccioli presented crisp toppers with poetic portrait necklines.