The JW Anderson For Versus Triumph

Versus  by JW Anderson - it's the most hotly anticipated collection since, well, Christopher Kane for Versus - and last night's launch didn't disappoint. With Chloe Noorgaard, Harley Viera Newton, Mena Suvari, Heidi Klum and Paloma Faith swathed in it for a launch event in New York's Lexington Avenue Amory that turned into a full on night club later on - complete with performances by Angel Haze, Grimes and Dead Sara - it was couched by Donatella as a "new look for the Versus Versace tribe".

JW Anderson's contribution was limited, however, to a capsule collection presented among a core collection designed by the wider Versace team - the combination of which was heralded as a "whole new era for Versus". Anderson, we all know, loves a bit of Nineties and he infused it powerfully into this latest project, adding what he called a "sharpness to the bridging of male and female" that he is also well known for. It meant tops cropped high above skirts that were slashed over both thighs, with enlarged safety pins to remind us all exactly where we were. Gold lions heads were buttoned down silk jersey minidresses, slashed this way and that to show off plenty of perfect Versace toned flesh - male and female - dubbed "newly appointed rebellious Versus princes and princesses" by Vogue's Emma Elwick-Bates.

Neon ribbed knits over lace underskirts and bold Zebra striped leather gave the collection Anderson flare wrapped tightly in Versus signatures as if the new tribe have taken a classic and romped with it to make it their own.

"With the same jarring modernity of the classic Versus campaigns which starred Kate Moss alongside her brother Nick, this capsule is slickly relevant," goes on E E-B. "Think patent dungaree micro dresses and bold zebra lines, with everything abbreviated - from slashed micro T's to the knits.