The Bevza woman may be minimal, but she ain’t no square.

For spring, Svitlana Bevza set out to prove the many possibilities that the simplest shape can have, cutting them out from necklines, constructing them in three dimensions and draping them front ways, back ways and sideways.

Inspiration, she said, came from artist Kazimir Malevich. “They call him the father of Russian avant garde, but he was born in Kiev, the same city as I was.”

Malevich’s geometric assemblages were reinterpreted in primary colors on a pair of upcycled parachute pants, which came across as more ’80s MC Hammer than early 20th-century Cubo-futurism. In this case, Bevza should have read the quote by Antoine de-Saint-Exupèry that she printed on silk scarves more closely: “Perfection is finally attained not when there

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