For some time, fashion designers have been divided on the question of where things are going. We've seen skirts swell to Far from Heaven proportions, and simultaneously we've seen them narrow to Garbo-esque slinkiness. The result has been a bountiful confusion of offerings, and this spring the bounty is as rich and as varied as ever. Down the catwalks came flowers of every scale and specimen, stripes of every width and provenance, moods cool and joyous, silhouettes clean and cluttered. One effect of a multidirectional moment is that the best designers take the opportunity to return to their core strengths and preoccupations, and to challenge us with trends of their own devising. It's a time when there's no hiding behind accepted proportions and ideas—a time for shepherds, not sheep.

—Sally Singer

"Peerless" has been edited for Style.com; the complete story appears in the January 2008 issue of Vogue.

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