Prada adorns a sleeveless knee-length coat with long, black beaded feathers. With a mohair faux-fur vest on top and an orange felt band, it’s a whimsical take on the trend ($6,550; prada.com).
Nina Ricci has her models wearing wispy ostrich feathers threaded through their hair, like Shakespeare’s midsummer fairies. The motif is repeated in an alpaca and mohair poncho. In soft light gray, the poncho’s chunky knit and asymmetrical hem complement the strands of feathers woven throughout ($1,215; eluxury.com).
Alexander McQueen is enamored of ostrich feathers, too, using them to decorate a short sage-green silk-chiffon cocktail dress. The turtleneck top is woven in delicate gold beads in a deep V shape, and the feathers—surrounding the hips through midthigh in a pouf—add a graceful flounce ($8,584; net-a-porter.com).
Ferragamo embraces the trend with a bold status bag. Dangling from chunky chain straps, pebbled leather gives way to a bright shock of pheasant feathers ($3,100; salvatore ferragamo.it). It’s the handbag equivalent of a peacock showing off its plumes.
