"Our identity is prints and colors," Custo Dalmau said backstage before the Custo Barcelona runway show. So prints and colors you shall have! Spring s energetic lineup featured palm trees and chevrons, hearts and flowers, and the portrait of one serious-looking lady who can best be described as Mona Lisa the Pirate. Men and women alike were treated to the print parade, but it was a man who was chosen to rock a pair of dangerously small gold-foil shorts and a tight knit top in violet. Call it girlfriend dressing. Transparency was a recurring motif—several of the girls had plastic trains floating from the back of their shorts—and various trimmings were patched together to make entire garments, which gave several pieces a mesh effect. These are unsubtle clothes with a lot of moxie. Monochromists and minimalists need not apply.
