Roland Mouret — who found international fame for his cap-sleeve styles — produced an architectural spring-summer show that riffed on Oriental styles.
The opening look — a dropped-shoulder hybrid — had interlocking diagonal segments on an embroidered grey jacket that carefully mirrored the direction of the collar bones of the model.
That outfit began typical explorations of the cap-sleeve and dropped-shouldered Mouret DNA.
The musing peppered the spring looks in Egyptian blues, vermilion and pale blue and yellows.
One shoulder-less black dress featured a dropped collar imagined as a decorative band across the bust.
It encased the model around her arms.
It was stylish, but could it also have been a metaphorical reminder of the dangers of creatively being stifled by being trapped in the house codes?