Ask any Stacy or Clinton: quality separates are essential for smart dressing. Versatile and enduring, these pieces show their value in design and construction rather than trend or logo. This fall, a certain echelon of designers engages the savvy dresser’s penchant by creating the illusion of separates in single garments. Young designers take note: this apparently simple formal language is perfected not through expressivity but through artifice.
Alber Elbaz develops his oeuvre at Lanvin with the poetic folds of this suit-mimicking dress. 
Miuccia Prada uses a truncated train to create the effect of a jacket over a skirt.
Nicolas Ghesquière conflates dresses and outerwear at Balenciaga.
Photos from style.com
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