Dundas Pre-Fall 2019 - New York Fashion Week

(Images from Vogue.com and wwd.com the public domain. All rights. Used in promotion of the designer.)

Peter Dundas returns with his pre-instalment array prior to the Fall 2019 collections in early 2019. These Pre-Fall collections from various designers offer a snapshot of coming Fall styles, like a litmus test on new designs and looks, hoping that any precursor forward trends are pick up by the consumers later within the actual season.   Usually, in most cases Pre-Fall collections are relatively light-on in their presentations.   As mentioned, these styles test the waters for fashion futures markets.

Regardless, Dundas maintains his fascination or at least continuing on with the residual trend from 2017, 2018 shows, that being the late 1970s and early 1980s hedonistic, sex nightlife culture. Distant memories of times well and truly in the past.  As noted in my reviews of past runway shows of other designers, the Western world, culturally is in a flux with social sensibilities, traditionalism and fusions of conservative encroachment from left and right versus doses of confusion.  Chasing markets has never been harder for designers with volatility in both stock markets globally and climate (I wonder if there is a correlation?) set the pace for dramatic shifts of uncertainty.  Maybe the threads of a stagnant (and over serviced) culture are coming undone.  Maybe.  Which should be seen as a positive rather than negative.  In the meantime, people still have to make money and survive.    Fashion design needs to maintain its innovation and creativity.  With gusto and passion.  That is all that matters.

Dundas Pre-Fall 2019 collection exudes a sophisticated sexuality that hopefully is the beginning of the end of these tiresome debates of cultural collectivism.   Within all its post adult immaturity and Ivory tower hypocrisy and excess, when in the end what is happening on the streets is what one can be inspired by – and it's reinserting new ideas, borrowing from old.  Styling in the now.   Which, as mentioned, a luxury of weighing in with armchair opinions via digital networks may be coming to an end.

Overlays of linen, silk, lace, leather and cotton, styled into mini skirts, tight v-neck tops with amble cleavage. High hemmed shorts, tassels, jacquard prints and seductive appeal.  Kaftan flows of elegance.  Cocktails and seduction.   Very nicely styled and crafted. With a glamorized sex appeal heightened.  There are no cheapened styles here, Dundas has brought fourth, yes, a hedonism, but more of a hustle like feminine style which is so appealing.  Reminds me of a woman that turned up at art VIP art gallery show, dressed in a similar look.  Who was able to not only get in, but able to score a double shot vodka whilst inside.   She left without blinking an eyelid.  Street smart and sexy