Designers tossed them over everything from woolly coats to lacy sweaters. Choose a wider style to cinch your coat, as Jacobs did. Or try Alfaro's approach, slinging a narrow belt around the hips as an accent for a cashmere sweater and wide-legged pants. It can be subtle, as in the ivory embroidery that trimmed the front of Vivienne Tam's ivory velveteen jacket. It can also be bold, as in Miller's short tweed skirts edged in rows of multicolored embroidery.
Leather fills that bill.
It's luxurious, but slightly tough. Alfaro used leather as trim, adding bands of crocodile to motorcycle jackets and zip-front sweaters. Every so often, fashion goes wild. This is one of those moments. Not since the '50s has fur been so hot.