Designers pumped up the volume, doubled-down on texture and added utility pockets to every conceivable garment surface in the collections they showed during the inaugural New York Fashion Week: Men's last week.
The biggest trend in the menswear collections for spring and summer 2016 was a bumper crop of billowy bottoms ranging from deeply pleated, generously cuffed knee-length hemp/linen shorts at Michael Kors to comically oversized trousers at Duckie Brown, where 48-inch waistbands were cinched onto waists almost half that size and cuffs dragged on the floor. In between those two extremes came voluminous short pants of every length and width.