There was a time years back when many thought leggings were going to be a one season wonder. Well, that moment has come and gone and even most naysayers long ago embraced them. We’re actually really liking these dancer-like incarnations of mostly sheer, sometimes short, and always scrunched for Spring/Summer 2010—especially the sheer pinks and neutrals for a bit of light layering.

What about you? Are you game for another season or totally over them by now?

When we hear “conceptual clothing,� we think of Junya Watanabe and avant-garde, sculptural silhouettes.

But for Danish artist and designer Karoline Kjeldoft, “conceptual fashion” uses design to explore how contemporary beauty ideals and identity are manifested through clothing.

Her current project, “86 / 77 / 96,� is a collection of dresses.

The line uses the average body measurements of an 80-year old woman – 86 / 77 / 96 (or, in inches 34 / 30 / 38) – as the starting point for the construction of garments that reveal and accentuate the body shapes of older women, rather than trying to “flatter� or obscure the actual figure.

Photographs of the designs are on display in Copenhagen’s Øksnehallen. The clothes are startling and provocative, and raise a lot of questions about the relationship between youth and fashion.

What if clothes were designed to highlight the way your body actually looked, instead of creating the illusion of more “perfect� body?

—ALISON COOL

In case any of you boys out there were wondering how to best complement your fake glasses, may we suggest the newly trendy comfy classic – the cardigan.

Mr. Rogers made the cardigan a staple, but the designers at Stray Boys made it cool again, with this striped zip-up design for those chilly summer nights…

Zippers are all over the place for fall – from the coat dresses at Lanvin to the rippling zippers at Junya Watanabe – and they’re just beginning to show up in menswear as well.

We guess you could wear the cardigan sans fake glasses, but you know how we feel about this…

—ALISON COOL