Cheap Ted Baker Donna Karan has been the champion of (and go-to designer for) ambitious women navigating the urban jungle for decades—her 1985 7 Easy Pieces collection, which proposed the limitless flexibility of wrap skirts, pull-on knit pants, tailored jackets, and a variety of cashmere layers is still culturally relevant today, and with the current vogue for bodysuits, knit separates, and layering pieces, seems only destined to become more so. It felt inevitable, then, that “a uniform as soft as it is strong” was both the main point of focus for her pre-fall collection and a proposition as appealing as any she’s made before.The clothes marched along with a grown-up practicality: Military-inspired tailoring showed up in structured, sculpted scuba-jersey blazers and mismatched metallic-buttoned top coats, while a two-piece simplicity took over the more feminine silhouettes, with mid-calf hip-hugging hem lengths and cinched waists. Crumpled-looking bomber jackets proffered in “crushed paper leather” felt like suede and possessed a stainless steel membrane—strong and soft, remember—while a strategically knotted jersey dress in deep violet threw an evening-ready curve. But it was a fluid, slouchy trouser in satin-banded stretch viscose paired with an oversize wrap of a robe coat that provided the most fresh-feeling take on what every woman, working or no, needs in her wardrobe: a great pair of pants for the season ahead.