The Era of the Slouchy Pant Has Arrived

"This season will bring an influx of relaxed pants, which makes tons of sense because the fashion industry can't have you wearing all those leggings you spent thousands of dollars on this season again next season," The Cut projected earlier this week, referencing a talk they'd had with Neiman Marcus' senior VP and fashion director Ken Downing. And so far at New York Fashion Week, the trend has shown itself to be alive and well. I first spotted the fruits of the leisure pant phenomenon at a presentation last night from Jenni Kayne, the LA-based designer beloved of Hollywood starlets. Alongside leather and canvas creations, Kayne presented an exceedingly wearable, less extreme take on this past year's ubiquitous drop-crotched trousers (pictured above).

Not to mention, during a brief stroll around Norma Kamali’s uptown shop today (where designs were going, and going fast, for $100 a pop in honor of Fashion’s Night Out), there was more than one Norma Kamali employee sporting a loose-fitting jersey harem pant in black slated to debut this Sunday when the designer shows her SS10 line at Apple’s Soho outpost. And surely not the last to embrace the loose-fitting relaxed pant for spring was Vena Cava. With a show set to a live soundtrack of the Fiery Furnaces at Milk Studios this afternoon, Vena Cava put forth quite a few sheer tops, bustier dresses, as well as the tapered-at-the-leg, loose-in-the-thigh trousers (see here) that are bound to be bountiful this coming spring.