newbatteri:

To sort of balance this post, I thought I’d also show a collection that was all about dresses, color, and prints. Ruffian’s show was full of this, but didn’t veer towards the too cute/frou-frou that anything “ladylike” is stereotyped as.
More from style.com:

…Brian Wolk and Claude Morais presented clothes designed for the pursuit of pleasure…It’s true, Ruffian’s brand of ladylike is about as far as it gets from the tough-chic body con and tailored androgyny that are fashion’s current fixation. But it wasn’t all frivolity and frills. The second look featured a vaguely military-looking dress with epaulets at the shoulders and two rows of brass buttons marching up the front, and the two slouchy, slightly oversize trenches in the same washed beach linen had a swagger that even the edgiest types probably couldn’t resist.