When the trend strikes, designers romanticize foreign ways of dress and fabric prints like kente cloth or Asian Ikats. The adaptation can either rob the culture of its significance to the consumer or produce something that is beautifully beyond the "American" aesthetic.

These designers have made educated decisions in their use of prints and styles ranging from the costume-y to the ready-to-wear.

Ports 1961, Style.com Pollini, Style.com Just Cavallie, Style.com

Dries Van Noten, Style.com