Abstraction

Resort 2011 collections from Bottega Veneta, Celine, and Stella McCartney

Spring 2011 collections by Prada, Jil Sander, Calvin Klein, and Gianfranco Ferre

The recent seasons’ pairing down and nod to minimalism has taken on a new and invigorating direction. More than a matter of reducing the clothes to its simplest elements, the body itself is obscured, flattened, blocked, and abstracted; rendered into mere lines, shape, and color.