As opposed to the usual and expected amounts of draping, this season's Rooms tradeshow exhibited several ladies' brands with menswear on their minds. This took the form of simple tailored silhouettes, straight lines, and restrained, pointed decoration. Natural and somewhat romantic looks were another running theme, in light fabrics in varying shades of barely-there neutrals. This was all in contrast to the regular inclusion of colorful brands from South America, this time notably from Argentina. There were a lot of new and sophomore domestic brands plus, noticeably, several from Hong Kong this year. While there was a definite increase in participating brands (up 127% from last year to 404 total, 268 domestic), over half of them fall into some kind of accessory (from jewelry to shoes to hats), leaving just 16.6% of the floor for womenswear and a surprisingly low 2.5% for men's (the rest fall under the categories of unisex, denim, products, interior, etc.). Knock out the ones doing really mainstream stuff, and here are the ones doing something a bit interesting!