Sunday, January 24, 2016

The Kendall Jenner-Approved Trend That Has Stood the Test of Time

Kendall Jenner was seen departing Paris yesterday in a fittingly French girl in 1977-inspired outfit—a long satin duster jacket, tucked-in tee, flared jeans, round sunglasses, and suede accessories. To top the look off, Jenner tied a silk scarf around her neck—an accessory trend that's been going strong for the past few seasons. Jenner has proven herself a trendsetting celebrity, and her embracing the silk scarf trend is further proof that it's not going anywhere anytime soon. Scroll down to see Jenner's cool airport outfit and to shop some of our favorite silky scarves, perfect for tying around your neck.

Jonathan Anderson for Loewe: ‘A Purist Kind of Thing’

Photo From the Loewe ad campaign for fall 2016.

PARIS — Jonathan Anderson, a.k.a. J. W. Anderson, the reigning British designer of the year for both women's wear and men's wear, is one busy guy.

Last week, he showed his fall 2016 collection for men in London; next month, he will do the same for his women's line. And this week he was in Paris, presenting his latest Loewe men's wear collection, his fourth for the venerable Spanish luxury goods house.

Photo The Goya bag, part of the fall 2016 men's collection at Loewe.

This season's collection continues earlier themes but is more exaggerated, with oversize bags, coats and leopard-print nutria beanies dominating the looks. There is also a mix of fabrics — denim and leather; fur and shearling; hand-painted leather jackets — as well as a simple, military-inspired look in his latest bag for Loewe, the Goya.

"I was looking for a purist kind of thing," Mr. Anderson said of that olive-green leather bag during a brief interview in his office on an upper level of the Loewe store on Avenue Montaigne. "You reduce everything down. That's actually one of my favorite pieces."

In talking about how he differentiates the work he does for Loewe from that for his own label, Mr. Anderson said one crucial distinction is that the Loewe collection is being shown as the advertising campaign is introduced, and that the clothes themselves are in stores — a luxury that Loewe affords him because, he noted, it has a network of 170 retail stores worldwide.

"The idea is that you are putting it into the zeitgeist," he said. "In the end, you bypass opinion and you go straight to the consumer. You go: 'Here you go. take it or leave it.' "

Correction: January 23, 2016

A photo accompanying an earlier version of this article showed an XL tote, not the Goya bag from the Loewe fall 2016 collection.