Paglialunga’s approach so far has been to hew, more or less, closely to the minimalist Sander ethos. His work isn’t as exacting as hers was, but let’s just say he hasn’t gone out on a limb.
Paglialunga began playing with the former at his Fall show, but here he really took the plunge, accenting all of his tailoring, many of his dresses, and some sweatshirts, too, with enormous shoulder pads. He said he was after a 1940s-by-way-of-the-’80s look.