Ermanno Scervino Fall 2019 Ready-to-Wear

According to the undisputed authority that is Abraham Moon & Sons, the 1837-founded Yorkshire textiles supplier, the pattern that dominated this Ermanno Scervino collection—as it does so many others—was “designed by King Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales, as livery for his hunts at Abergeldie Castle on Scotland’s Deeside.” The Prince of Wales check is an interplay of bold black lines against a gray background formed from an artfully arranged static of houndstooth. Unlike leopard print—the second dominant pattern in this collection, and arguably the prime conventionally “feminine” pattern—it is man-made.