Jil Sander Brown Flared Dress in Silk Satin

Flared dress in silk satin, deep V-neck, blouson detailing and knit elastic in the waist. Inspired by Take Ivy, the cult coffee-table book documenting the style of Ivy League students, Raf Simons’s new collection for Jil Sander offers a glimpse inside the women’s dorms of those prestigious schools, as cast in a very stylishly enhanced future. Taking inspiration from traditional collegiate dressing, letterman sweaters were reconfigured with elongated waistbands and then morphed to form nip-waisted dresses. In place of a coat of arms or Greek insignia, words such as "promise", "trust", "silence" and "faith" were emblazoned on the back of jackets, alluding to the secret codes of conduct you might expect from a sorority. His reworkings of iconic American sportswear was in a league of its own, with the chicest rendition of a varsity jacket one could imagine. Pieces like these are enough to tempt any woman back into the classroom, and since pre-fall precedes the back-to-school season, this is higher learning indeed. Pre-fall collection 2012 by Raf Simons