By the time a week of Paris ready-to-wear shows wrapped on Tuesday, you didn’t need to be much of a fashion sleuth to recognize the big non-color trend for spring and summer 2018 because it was ...

His Urban Signature designs go all-in with black-and-white drawings that mimic graffiti. The second collection, Spellbound, is by Elina Clevergull, an artist based in Portugal.

Black-and-white clothes are striking and naturally strong looking; they lend themselves to period casting, particularly to the Forties and Fifties. This had a lot to do with early fashion photography.