Check Boy Check Girl, Check Please –

Are you a checkerboard chick – or maybe you just pick up the check? Plaid has been in the air for sometime now. But, fashions newest fixation with checks has a decidedly 80’s feel. These checks are reminiscent of race cars, taxi cabs and the iconic black and white tiled floors we loved so much back in the Reagan years. For the spring/summer 2017 collections, the European men’s runways were paved in checks  – and the checks continued on the couture runways too.

It started in London with the Christopher Kane show. Then in Milan we saw them in  the DSquared2 and Dolce and Gabanna shows. Then onto Paris for Comme des Garcon and Givenchy’s men’s shows and full-on body-checks a-go-go. More checks, but now in houndstooth and windowpane, popped up in the couture shows of Aramni Prive, Chanel, Maison Margiela and finally Dolce and Gabanna.

Come spring, boys and girls alike will all be saying, “Check please!

Photo Credits – all photos courtesy of Vogue runway.