NEW YORK—There was no good reason for Escada to send high-top, pastel-coloured sneakers down its spring 2019 runway Sunday afternoon. Those sneakers were not cool and they were not ironically ugly. They weren’t even so horribly grotesque as to make an intellectual argument about the definition of beauty, the rules of dress or some crazy esoteric point about gender or age or heck, the meaning of life. But they did manage to underscore the fact that fashion companies are run by people, and people — no matter their age or background or store of good common sense — are not immune to peer pressure. The problem with the Escada sneakers, aside from the fact that they looked like a stack of Ladurée macarons, is that they were paired with suits cut in an ’80s silhouette, when jackets had squared-off shoulders and a boxy torso and were paired with knee-length skirts.

Source: thestar September 10, 2018 20:48 UTC