FASHION
Black & White
LIKE BESOTTED LOVERS, THESE CONTRARY HUES JUST CAN’T SEEM TO STAY AWAY FROM EACH OTHER. By Rita Guarna
What’s new for fall? A familiar duo’s back: pure white and basic black. Now, before you protest that pairing these potent polarities couldn’t possibly be novel, that each is the other’s confounding retort and it’s all settled, that salt and pepper have been goin’ at it since the invention of night and day with no clear winner, that chessboards and piano keys and zebras have made this matchup mundane, that early televisions twinkled with these opposites in the late 1940s and daguerreotypes froze them a century before, that even author Truman Capote’s famed masked black-andwhite ball was, after all, 55 years ago, before you say all this—take a look at the bold and unexpected vivacity on these next six pages. Check out the monochromatic magic of arresting shapes and patterns that can pop like a firecracker when these contrary hues meet again as if for the first time. You’ll see why top fashion designers such as Carolina Herrera and Mossi Traoré can’t resist this combo, why its dialectic in the right ingenious hands can make even the brassiest rainbow self-conscious and envious. What’s new? As you see, black-andwhite is new—as new as this evening, as new as forever.
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