Maje Spring 2018 Ready-To-Wear....Fashionweekly....On Fow24news.com

Next year Maje celebrates its 20th anniversary and will move into a new Paris HQ, location to be disclosed. So, understandably, Judith Milgrom looked back to the company’s rich archive of French-girl finery as she built a broad proposition of options for next year’s vintage......

One past Maje motif was the miniskirt worn over shorts, shown here in fabrications including a sized-up Prince of Wales check against a wide-armed, striped, pie-crust cotton smock. A matching check blazer was presented above a drape-fronted, plissé-edged red mid-length skirt—ah, that always fruitful masculin-feminin pendulum was swinging anew. Denim included a washed long shirtdress and a washed tank-trucker worn over a polka-dot crop top. An efficient LBD suite included examples that were ruched tight or constructed in cotton-embroidered sections with pearl details at the neckline.

A reversible orange-beige trench; a sweet tomato shirt with epaulets, emphasized shoulder lines, and strapping at the wrists; plus a double-ruffle one-shouldered blouse in more shirting cotton were other easy-to-wear highlights here. Potential new-year portage options included a multiple-fabrication heart-shaped tote bag that doubled as a fanny pack (depending on whether you employed a chain or strap to carry it). There were some cute bijou options—chains with little enamel discs stamped with numbers to remind yourself of your date of birth (simply comb them to the right)—some nice M-flashed white sneakers and plenty of pointy-toe ankle-strap flats and sandals in fabrications designed to complement certain looks. Nothing here was majorly life-changing, but as a one-stop mid-price source of easy-to-wear pratique-yet-chic Gallic glamour, Maje is a go-to.