Norma Kamali isn’t usually someone who turns away from a challenge. She can’t fix the state of the world, but what she does have agency over is her collections, and so the designer decided to engage people. “If it can build your mood, lift it, take you out of mental stress or all these things we’re feeling—if it can do that, then that’s what I need to do,” she said. She accomplished that by supersizing a photographic leopard print and tying scarves of gold lamé around necks and waists as a substitute for jewelry. Kamali captured the transitional nature of the season with a black-and-white ombré and added a bit of zesty zing with pieces in citrusy yellow.
