In the world of womenswear, one of the most useful things clothes can offer is fluidity, versatility, and adaptability—the ability to make getting dressed easier for one’s dynamic lifestyle. Perhaps that is why there is a growing call for more women to design for women—not simply because of representation, but because of the understanding that comes with it.

Sarah Burton’s S/S 27 collection for Givenchy offered a compelling example by focusing on what she described as a sense of balance and clarity. Instead of asking women to continually figure out what to wear, her collection presented pieces that do the thinking for them. The designs were crafted and styled to show how they could shift to suit different settings, as well as the roles and versions of a woman that can emerge over the course of a week—or even a day. “A wardrobe to bring precision and simplicity to dressing as we speed through the multiple perspectives and perpetual motion of all our lives,” as Burton puts it in the press release.