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Perspective: These clothes combine cool and kooky in a way that looks easy. But they actually take a lot of skill.

Loewe fall-winter 2019 collection. By Robin Givhan Robin Givhan Fashion critic Email Bio Follow Fashion critic March 1 at 3:39 PM PARIS — A handful of supremely talented designers combine disparate notions and competing aesthetics into garments that look beautifully inevitable. That accomplishment is akin to concocting dessert with an off-putting blend of ingredients — roasted kumquats, sage ice cream and a brown sugar crisp — and having guests swoon in unexpected delight.

Chloe fall-winter 2019 collection. At its best, Anderson’s work looks spontaneous and unplanned — even if it has been meticulously sorted out. His is a daring high-wire act any number of designers try and at which most end up failing miserably. Sialelli showed his first Lanvin women’s collection on the runway earlier in the week at the 13th century Musée de Cluny, and, well, it looked like Loewe — but not really. In a collection called Mystic Pilgrims, he offered an eccentric blend of fairy-tale imagery, nautical themes, medieval references, pastels and more pastels.Lanvin fall-winter 2019 collection. Sialelli was never able to find the right proportions of all of these conflicting elements.

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