I love leather shorts. I think paper-bagging the waist is an interesting and cool interpretation. I am also totally giddy about the lacrosse-style leather weave hats and shoulder details that Suzaan Heynes used to style her collection at AFW day 3. The use of the Pep-store grey prison blankets and the felt-style fabrications seems a little more anticipated. And so was my over-arching feeling about the new collection in general.
Which is not to say I didn't like it. It's just that I am so used to more drama and excitement, more risque adventuring, more pushing of the boundaries and celebrations of subversive female strength and empowerment, that this left me a little deflated. Like Heyns' women have been broken and are en route, via their self-imposed prisons, to total subjugation.
But maybe I have got it wrong. Maybe I just miss the glossy goth of it all.