The leather pants, embellished jackets, and drop-waist dresses that Olivier Theyskens sent down the runway for Spring 2012 at Theyskens Theory were more than ample to catch our consideration. But later re-seeing the collection, it’s a smaller detail that sticks with us: the double-waisted trousers.

Those familiar with the new-to–New York designer’s quondam collections will memorize namely Theyskens has constantly bounced between high-rise, fitted jeans and low-slung pants that reveal swaths of peel. This period approximately, he went because broke with both in a hurry. The new neatness allows the coverage of a higher-waisted pant with the fluid drape of a many lower an. “I primarily devised the jeans this course because it looks excellent above girls,” Theyskens annotated. “It’s accurate how I favor to watch pants fall. The construction on the lower waistband allows the girl to feel the pants really eligible right.” The designer, it corners out, errs on the side of modesty, even if he may sometimes bare flesh on the runway. “It’s likewise useful to dodge showing too much underwear,” he added.
—Jessica Minkoff

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