God how I miss this stage of Karl's couture output when he would focus in on one concept -- dropped waists one season, trousers another, blouses another -- and work it in such mindblowingly beautiful, yet ultimately quite simple, ways. It was sexy, it was pretty, it was youthful, it was sophisticated, it was light.
This wasn't even my favorite collection of his and yet it blows most of his recent work out of the water.