Norma Kamali may as well be fashion s patron saint of ease, so integral is it to her brand s DNA. Ergo it only makes sense that she would choose to make things a little simpler for her customer this season. Where previously Sweats, Swim, and diffusion line Kamali Kulture existed as separate entities, they ll now live under a single umbrella. "Nobody s life is just active; nobody s life is just swimwear," the designer effused at her showroom. Indeed, boundaries don t exist in the way Kamali s fans of all ages wear her clothes, so why should they in name? While the marketing may have changed slightly, and for the good, what s inside continues to evolve incrementally. Still on the docket were gorgeous wrap dresses and tops to throw in a carry-on, confident in the fact that they won t be wrinkled at the other end of your journey. Separates that bore tiers of shimmering, shaking fringe also spoke to up-for-anything good times. Last season s compression pieces returned, in all of their belly-flattening, spine-straightening glory, but what does the pioneer of activewear do when the market is, as she dubs it, "glutted with active"? She brought in "real" fabrics, such as raw-edged denim and mattress ticking, and whipped them into utterly on-trend fitted jackets and flares. Leave it to a pioneer to go and mix things up in the face of the mundane.
