Etro's Flapper Girls

The collection was entitled 'The New Jazz Age' and it focused on simple silhouettes and art deco prints. There were dresses aplenty - the trouser, it seems has been almost entirely abandoned en masse by designers for next season - and they were fluid and loose fitting with dropped waists. They were full of movement too, with plisse pleats emerging from underneath hems, metallic fringing swishing around hem and silk inserts that swirled as the models walked.

Graphic, swirling prints in sorbet shades were placed strategically in columns or panels across silk dresses, kimono-style jackets, luxe blouses and tiny silk shorts. And, for added twenties glamour, they were highlighted by scatterings of sequins, encrusted with beads, sprinkled with crystals. And all that jazz...

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