“I still do believe there is room for an artistic vision, and craft. Nothing has truly never been done [before], but whatever you bring to it, what time you do it, is your statement” Wang said during a preview.

For fall 2016, Wang crossed her artful inclinations with the tropes of fencing, creating an intensely sensual attitude with a hint of the perverse. It both compelled and challenged.

Wang worked both aggressive and gentle elements, as well as weight and transparency. A key item: the plastron, integrated into a linear silhouette, exaggerated with monster platform sandals (thick and high), and worn with spats of varying height. The long line was inspired by Giacometti — at least that was the sound-bite spiel. Really, the compelling silhouette came, she said, “in reaction to seeing a lot of minis and a lot of more obvious silhouettes.”

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Vera Wang RTW Fall 2016

Source: WWD