Bouchra Jarrar Fall Couture 2012

This reviewer has never bought into the women-designing-for-women-do-it-better line of reasoning because decades of fashion history, and considerable personal anecdotal research, suggest otherwise. Excellence in fashion knows no gender. Yet there is something about Bouchra Jarrar’s clothes that feel so right, so practical and efficient in their glamour that one can’t help but wonder if Jarrar isn’t her own best muse/fit model/sounding board. Her work — actually luxe ready-to-wear with a soupçon of genuine haute couture (a balance she’d like to shift toward the latter) — fuses chic and sensible with quietly glamorous élan.  For more