You can take the boy out of the country, but you can t…etc., etc. Josh Goot s Aussie roots are always there in the beachy underpinnings of his clothes. For Spring, that meant a scuba subtext: precisely engineered prints, bonded seams, body conscious all the way. Short dresses were high in the front, cut out at the back, like a Bond(i)-girl bathing suit. The footwear was influenced by surfboards. And the elongated T-shirt dresses and tanks felt like the kind of easy pieces you d throw on after a day on the sand. The color palette, with its acids and its airbrushing, had the confident optimism of the eighties, as did the broad-shouldered black-and-white-patterned jackets Goot draped over his little dresses. He was born in 1980, so any echo of that decade was clearly fantasy on his part. But maybe that s what gave the collection its appealingly dreamy, graphic quality. Compensation enough for its lack of breadth or depth.
