Let's just suspend the 'Oh but can we wear this' question and just get stuck right into the wave of fashion graduate shows that are now underway.  At the Central St. Martins BA show, Alithia-Spuri Zampetti won the first prize of the L'Oréal Professionnel Award 2008 and though I don't usually agree with the first prize winners, I have to say that Zampetti's laser-cut out pieces have blown me away into a land where precision and detailing trumps all. 

The cut-outs could so easily look superfluous and used merely to demonstrate technical skill as opposed to collection cohesion.  However, with the sheer shirts and simple black pencil skirts, together they balance each other out and places these fantastically precise illustrated, cut-out oversized collars and sleeves in a context that befits them.  I'm not sure what materials the cut-outs are made out of, though it would be even more supremely impressive if she used a robust fabric, instead of the more predictable fash-student-y cardboard/paper (though I'm about to embark on a paper garment project so maybe I shouldn't be nay-saying so soon...) .