Banana Republic Fall 2015 is the faultless streetstyle collection of NYFW.

It’s the Collection for the realities of life: Meeting friends, the school run, a trip to the shops..a quick snap from the paps…it’s normcorm coolness personified..

And maybe that’s where I have my itch, my first wobble of a potential problem, hard to hold back and impossible to shake off..

I love the stripe. But think too deeply and this collection becomes an unsettling vision..like a serpent eating it’s own tail.  We have fashion..we have street style..now we have fashion that is street style and because it’s so perfectly of the moment, there’s no sense of pushing boundaries or striving for the next artistic step.

It’s not that I don’t like it..I really, really do..and look – metallics and tassels again..

(All photos Style.com)

It’s faultless, flawless, impeccable – and feels like it’s been squeezed and prodded into life by a profit driven corporate machine…to produce the opposite of anarchy.

The truth is fashion has to sell, but it fundamentally has to walk hand in hand with creativity: We need a heart..but we need a soul too.

Laters, Kate x