In the top collections, the casual look is interpreted in the most luxurious fabrics, including mohair, double-faced wools, alpaca and cashmere.

The spring coat of double-faced wool has long been considered a dinosaur of fashion's more formal past.

Day dresses were of wool denim or double-faced wool, sometimes with a surprising touch, like cutouts at the side of the waist.

A parade of meticulously made coat-and-dress ensembles in double-faced wool made their way down the runway.

Bill Blass included two impeccably made late-day suits of purest white double-faced wool - quite a tailoring tour de force.

Tunics were also shown in various black-and-white patterns, as well as in brightly colored double-faced wool.

But there are also ladylike dresses and boxy jackets in silk faille, double-faced wool and canvas.

There are metallic leathers, paper taffetas, silk-and-Lurex knits, and double-faced wools.

And it is in double-faced wool.

The very premise of his show, a millennial collection in double-faced wool, unduly taxes the brain, so conventional is this fabric.