Izumi Ogino made a play for effortless elegance with her spring collection for Anteprima, which paired fluid dresses and skirts with supersheer knits. Some of the looks harked back to the early days of athletic wear. Stretchy fluted skirts — black with slim white vertical stripes or spliced with triangular mesh panels — evoked Jacques Henri Lartigue’s photographs of tennis players in the Thirties.
Harlequin and checkerboard motifs appeared as devoré patterns on a range of fabrics, from a filmy material to a mossy knit. Ogino used innovative techniques to create transparency effects, most notably on a sequence of Grecian-style belted dresses and pleated skirts that were suggestive but never vulgar.