You could hear the coughs and shuffles and clanking of belt buckles as the 10 models in this—as usual, extremely intimate—first-thing-in-the-morning Comme des Garçons show rushed to change backstage. Out they marched with glittered hair in shirting patched with embroidered faces by Alexis Beauclair and dappled color-pop print by Candida Alvarez. As ever, there were shirts in mishmash bang-crash combinations of Bengal stripe and plain tones with disjunctive details—round necks, nightshirt hems—that took the codes of Jermyn Street then trampled prettily all over them. Poly-olive high trenches, topstitched jackets, and Beauclair-face knits and Bretons provided non-shirting-led roughage.
The Shirt Boy collection, which started at look 29, was short but included a great gray high-cut duffle, some bouncer-fantasy MA-1s made into ponchos, and a sweet check baseball shirt. This is the Comme to wear.
