It’s a transitional season at Paule Ka, awaiting a new designer and manager following the exit in July of founder Serge Cajfinger, who served as its creative director and chairman since 1987.
No matter. The design team continued to mine the Parisian brand’s favorite decade — the Sixties — yielding trapeze dresses, beatnik turtlenecks and a glossy tweed cape Emma Peel might have worn. This prim, risk-free collection also was spiked with athletic touches: leather dresses and coats with intarsia stripes, a run of cropped bomber jackets, and bicolor sneakers.