Palmer Harding Fall 2018 Ready-To-Wear....Fashionweekly..On Fow24news.com

Levi Palmer and Matthew Harding stopped to take stock before this collection, consulting with their best customers about what they value most and least about the label. The insights gained, the designers said, allowed them to focus on moving forward rather than resting on laurels.,,,,
The upshot was a collection which encapsulated movement - Palmer and Harding’s stated aim for this collection - but did not necessarily appear as innovative as the designers suggested.

Their signature - to take menswear shirting and sometimes tailoring, then splice and dice it with care and abandon - remained in spades. Multi-sleeved shirts and jagged handkerchief shirt-dresses in patched Jermyn Street cottons were there under wide necked full sleeve knits and distorted lapel long tailoring. These are clothes that can look to the careless eye as if they have been put on whilst inspiredly intoxicated, and there is absolutely a sense of movement in the twist and whorl suggested by their careful subversion of sartorial techtonics. As an elevated workwear solution for women who want to defy the straitjacket of corporate uniformity whilst acknowledging its codes, Palmer Harding is a great option. Yet they need to push not just the boundaries of shirting but their own boundaries too: it would be fascinating to see their mixologist impulses applied to active wear, or properly at-leisure wear, or full-tilt evening wear.