If the slimming effect was as pronounced as you make out I don’t think we’d be able to see the top two models at all, and fashion designers would have invented an invisibility cloak for dangerously underweight women.

Who would have thought that such a simple design change could have such a big impact upon the look. very striking indeed!
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I hear what you’re saying, and I see what you’re saying, but I disagree that this should be thought of or called “slimming”. The “X” draws the eye. It’s sexy.

And these women are fit. They don’t need “slimming”.

The second dress is really beautiful! It’s always nice to see a fresh design, sometimes I feel as if everything has already been done.

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If only all my outfits will have the “X effect”…sigh…

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Pilotto is brilliant.

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After looking at these pictures, it has become exceedingly clear to me that I now need a dress with an x-neckline.

Gorgeous. Even the dress without the x-neckline in this post is stunning. Love.

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That’s brilliant. It produces such a lovely effect. Love the Pilotto dresses!

Those dresses are to die for! I can imagine wearing them and managing to feel sexy on one of those “I feel fat” days.

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Scott u have such an diverse eye…..never dull….. very exciting…..love the dresses…..and the intelectual prints……

I think the “x effect” as visually slimming depends on how its utilized… the 2nd dress makes the model’s top half look very constricted and tight, but her lower half looks even more accentuated and curvy because of the lines going out! Maybe that’s just me…anyhow, the dresses are really beautiful! great colors!

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Lovely dresses! I would definitely wear these!

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Peter Pilotto fits perfectly in the Marni design! I never thought!
Here’s what shoes are making.
Quite a different expression!
Even “x effect” is of a different context – very rustic romantic.

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Love this line. Peter knows how to flatter a woman. Gorgeous cut and fabric. Shoes too!

The print of the second dress reminds me a lot the African fabrics (Ivory Coast for example), even the shape of this dress is like the cloth that some African women wear tight around the body.
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Carey Mulligan wore the green one on the Late Late Show and looked stunning.

Good observation. That black and white dress is stunning!

I agree, the “x effect” is pretty amazing and unexpected.
But. most of all, I love the printed kind of parachute dress in the third picture: super cool!

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The white dress is such a beauty with that clear lines and perfectly matching colour combination I want is so badly.

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As if those models needed to lose 10 pounds! Heftier models, please to show OFF the effect!

This dress is great for slim and tall girls like me.. :)

I prefer effect Y hahah

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The X effect is super! Would love to own one dress or two!

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Really interesting idea, the visual effect is great!

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LOVE the X-effect, especially on the 2nd dress. I try to mimic this effect with cardigans buttoned only at the waistline, or by belting unbuttoned blazers, but this design incorporated in the dress is genius! Must have it!

That’s an amazing shape and the dresses are really great. It’s all about composition!

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I’ve never thought about it has an “X” but you’re right, that effect is what make them look so elegant. I’m stucked to dresses right now and these are really gorgeous!

i am stunned at the designs..they are marvelous!!

I also love the shoes!

I love these dresses. Those patterns are striking!

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The pattern, the cut, the silhouette; it all works!

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Love the X Factor. The bottom dress is great alone or with jeans. Dress it up or done. Belted or not. Fabulous travel piece.

huch, the second dress reminds me strongly on a fish!

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I respectfully disagree. I think the X factor adds curves and thus inches, especially in the hips. It does slim the waist, however.

The runway models typically look straighter and leaner; here they look curvy. Imagine a curvy woman wearing the X factor: the curves might become extreme!

Let’s view this “X-effect” a bit more conceptually.
Female (sex not gender) is determined by the x-chromosome. In this current fashion period so dedicated to the “feminine mystic” of the 1960s, as viewed by Pilotti’s silhouettes, it is intriguing that the designer present the strictures of the sex blatantly upon the feminine form. Even in the breezy, cosmopolitan design of the woman in Milan’s dress, we see that same presentation of gendered expectation – beautiful, feminine, fertile (breastsxtiny waistxround hips). Fashion reflects our world, as women return to girdles (who exactly is that really for?), continue to make less money than male counterparts, and violence against women continues to be sky high. Fashion is life, and life, like fashion, can be depressing.

Love the X effect!! I think the last shoes are Marni, amazing as always

Wow – you are so right, simply stunning! I will be on the lookout in Paris for a similar style!
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Such beautifully dizzying prints!

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It’s the “X Factor” taking over. Subliminal influence from Simon Cowell. First the Isabel Marant jeans and now this….

The last girl Cinthia at the Marni Show, looks beautifull on x- effect dress
.. at all she’s a very glamorous Venezuelan girl!! allways at the best disigners shows.. and she’s extremelly serious in fashion.
..at all she’s wearing the top of the top!!!
..love’s the optical effect on that dress

The future is here! Those first too dresses are hot they look like what a hot chick on Star Trek Deep Space Nine would wear and I mean that in the nicest way possible

@ Constance; You mean “feminine mystique” not “feminine mystic” A feminine mystic is a carnival fortune teller the is very feminine. LOL! I think its better to get the spelling correct when trying to be so very clever that you compare fabric tied rather naturally around the waist to the x chromosome. There is nothing at all depressing about the physical difference between men and women. Rather the opposite. And in fact women’s lives have improved drastically from days gone by and continue to improve. There is true equality. There is violence against women, but not any more then violence against men. The better question is why sit around trying to find some women’s issue in the clouds?

je adore le troisième photographie. So ethnic chic.