Fran Stringer, Pringle of Scotland’s new women’s wear design director, unveiled her first runway collection for the heritage knitwear firm Monday. Here was an inventive take on the house’s signature knit techniques, worked in laid-back, Nineties-inflected silhouettes. “It’s this whole idea of looking at these beautiful, natural fibers but putting them in modern silhouettes,” said Stringer, describing the designs as “relaxed and feminine at the same time.”
The standouts were those looks that Stringer dubbed her contemporary take on the twinset, such as a creamy white, high-necked knit tank top with a twist detail at the waist, paired with a slouchy maxiskirt and heavy Chelsea boots. Or an oversize, luxuriously fluffy sweater woven from shearling yarns, worn over a ribbed maxiskirt.
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Stringer also said she’d taken cues from Pringle’s 19th-century roots as an underwear-maker, which translated into a series of lingerie-inspired garments. The most appealing were looks such as a simple knit camisole dress worn with a shearling coat, rather than a dress with a structured bustier in felted wool, which didn’t have the same ease.
Stringer succeeded in gently evolving the house’s knitwear codes, imbuing the collection with a fresh, youthful sensibility.