While other denim brands keep experimenting with destroyed hems, Crayola washes, and novelty prints, AG is getting back to basics. For Spring 2019, it nixed the silk button-downs and woven dresses of seasons past to zero in on AG’s bread and butter: denim and knits. “Knits” included T-shirts and sweaters, as well as other cotton layering pieces—the soft stuff, basically.
It’s gotta be hard to succeed as a denim brand in 2019, when you’re expected to be everything to everyone. But there’s longevity in flat-out great jeans and perfect tees, and those are AG’s calling card. Spring still had some variety and newness, though: There was a sharp dark-rinse jumpsuit (which will have serious wear-to-work potential for creative types); cropped wide-leg jeans in a pale, barely there orchid dye; great-looking ’90s-ish stovepipes; and for the girl who already has a dozen of those, there was also a new pleated jean. Color was the big story for guys, namely the no-fuss slim jeans in a warm clay wash. Styled with a matching jacket, it made the case for a new, softer kind of Canadian tuxedo—though purists will go for the hardier classic version: a denim cargo shirt tucked into inky-blue, hand-distressed jeans.
