There’s nothing like extreme weather to focus the mind. When you are freezing, or thinking about the fact that you are about to be freezing, or defrosting from being freezing, suddenly clothes take on whole new meaning. It’s cold outside! Where’s the design proposition to solve that?
It should be on the runway. These are the autumn/winter shows, after all.
Yet the combined forces of global warming and globalization have thrown fashion for a loop. Seasons increasingly seem less like seasons than abstract ideas. Grit your chattering teeth and follow the bouncing train of thought.
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Long sleeves! Whatever the origin of the idea (and truth be told, once clothes make it into the stores, the why and wherefore of their creation in the designer mind is essentially beside the point), to a viewer shivering on the benches by the catwalk, it suddenly made a whole lot of sense.
The New York Collections: Carolina Herrera, Diane von Furstenberg, Prabal Gurung, Thakoon, The Row, Tommy Hilfiger
A version of this article appears in print on February 17, 2015, on page A20 of the New York edition with the headline: Whatever Looks Warm Will Work. Order Reprints| Today’s Paper|Subscribe
