Maryam Nassir Zadeh’s fall collection is a reminder that how you wear your clothes is as important as what you put on. This season’s lookbook, photographed in a Parisian apartment, is a kind of masterclass in defying convention and exciting the eye. See how cinching a belt inches above the waistline creates an unexpected proportion? Or how tights paired with lucite wedges are so wrong they’re right?

Nassir Zadeh makes little distinction between men and women; both genders tuck their pants into their boots and both are photographed in a delicious bubblegum-pink leather blouson jacket. In one photo a male model ties a cummerbund-shaped bi-color belt over a pair of luxuriously pleated pants; it’s unexpected and effective in zhuzhing up a basic outfit.

In Nassir Zadeh’s world, spontaneity is

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