The organic and the architectural made for a happy marriage in Sportmax’s Pre-Fall offering. Riffing on Italian Futurism and the great outdoors, here was a lineup full of unfussy polish and buy-now-wear-now appeal. It paired a certain mod sensibility with the austere long layers of the current runways. Case in point: a swingy knit dress with wide cuffs. Outerwear, consistently a standout for Sportmax), was particularly nice here, like a softly sculptural cornflower blue coat with oversize white buttons. Circles, common as they are in both the natural and the man-made, were a recurring motif, from cutouts to closures to giant, disc-like brooches that proved a nifty styling trick for the simplest of knits. A graphic floral print could stand to have been left on the cutting room floor, but on the whole, splurges with pattern were worthwhile; the sleeveless intarsia number in a zigzagging, abstracted folkloric design was a standout.
