What’s Happening With Pants?
Wide-leg, skinny, super slouchy and baggy: today, anything goes when it comes to the garment. If fashion month taught us anything, it’s that pants are having an identity crisis. Amid talk of several revivals (the skinny jean, the bootcut, et al.), designers offered a wide-ranging lineup: low-slung and slouchy, crisp and cigarette-slim, cropped at the ankle or pooling over a shoe. There’s no single silhouette to rally around, and that’s the fun of it. At Balenciaga, Pierpaolo Piccioli fluctuated between distressed jeans and billowing cargo styles that had an almost gaucho look to them. Jonathan Anderson created a range of metallic croc-embossed trousers with slim shapes at Dior, while Zimmermann experimented with laser-cut denim and flowing lace pants with silk inlays. Nordstrom’s fashion director Linda Cui Zhang sees that same appetite for variety among shoppers. “There’s an openness to…