Given that this was only the second womenswear collection from
Katie Eary, it was no surprise to find her still honing her
point of view. That said, she did make some headway this season.
The designer seems to have located a Katie Eary-shaped hole in
the market and filled it with skintight denim corset-laced with
rubber tubing, iridescent button-downs with balloon sleeves, and
neoprene sweatshirts—all of them produced in florid floral
prints. Minimalist, no. But that's all to the good. Eary's take
on sex and decadence felt distinctive and new—the rubber tubing
was a witty touch, and the fact that her primary material was
denim made the collection feel unexpectedly grounded. It's not
unreasonable to imagine a nervy girl pulling on Eary's tube-
sided skinny jeans, throwing on a T-shirt and a baseball cap,
and heading out for the night. (Indeed, it's not insane to
imagine that girl being Rihanna.) Eary has found a niche; now
she just needs to work on giving her collections more scope and
dimension.