One of the big fashion week questions that keeps popping up in my head is: “Who is going to buy all of these dresses with cutouts?” It’s a sexy idea on the runway — a flash of skin at the small of the back, above a breast or on the lower waist — but it’s also a difficult one to pull off in real-life. Cutouts have surfaced on the runways in New York, London and, now, Milan in clothing lines big and small, old and new. But will the girl who has to shop a little more deliberately choose to splurge on a dress that highlights an area she feels self-conscious about? (If I had a Euro for every time a friend complained about her non-existent love handles.) Look at the cutout in a Gucci show, though, and it makes perfect sense. Frida Giannini has, after all, developed a knack for creating sexy, slick, streamlined clothing that appeals to the moneyed, flamboyant jet-setter–the kind of woman who might want to accentuate the small of the back or the very top of the butt cheek on her painfully toned body (because she spent so much on surgery to get it that way, wink.)
