Accessories: staples that you need in your wardrobe
Here are the spring staples that you need in your wardrobe to be trendy even when you’re wearing last year’s dress… …
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Trends
Animal Prints Trends: Leopardskin, tiger or zebra-striped… and also reptile skin!
Leopardskin, tiger or zebra-striped, and also reptile skin… total look or just a detail, worn over a black sheath dress or with a gym shirt, whether in the morning or evening, they flatter both brunettes and blonds. This spring there is no rule but one: wear animal prints without fear of looking tacky or over the top. This season’s icon is Donatella Versace with her animalier collection as a tribute to Gianni. …
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Purple: color of the spring summer 2018 season
Ultra violet is the color of the spring/summer 2018 season. In three shades: Pink Lavender, Spring Crocus and Ultra Violet. But Ultra Violet is the absolute star: associated with the seventh chakra, where the human and the divine unite into one whole, it’s the season’s most mysterious tone. As for pairings, resort to lilac and pink, if you want to play it safe. If glamour is what you’re after, metallic silver is a winner. …
Yellow: principal color of summer 2018
Yellow like… a highlighter! Choose the Meadowlark and Lime Punch tones, they flatter brunettes and… blondes with sense of humour! Tone it down with the classic Blue Navy, with a pair of jeans or a touch of light-blue. You will look as bright as a summer morning. …
Waterproof trends
Plastic is the star, sent down the runway by the great Karl over Chanel’s signature winter tweed suits and again for the spring collection, followed by Anya Hindmarch, Christopher Kane with a more romantic look, Valentino with a shorter, nearly leather jacket-style model, and Balmain with a more daring matching dress and overcoat. …
Trends spring/summer 2018
What will spring bring? Showy, colorful, intellectual-chic fashion trends. The season is all about extremes, from minimalist to maximalist, from monochrome to a riot of patterns and colors… Stripes, checks, tartan, with huge accessories and kitsch fashion details. …
Spring-Summer 2018 color trends
Straight from the Pantone Fashion Color Report, here is the list of the trendiest and most popular color trends that we’ve seen on the Spring/Summer 2018 runways, including my tips on how to wear them. Generally speaking, color trends can be split into two “factions”: for those who are fond of vivid colors, an intense color palette evoking Fauvist paintings; on the other side, pastel shades for light and romantic outfits. …
Nappa Coats Trends
The nappa leather coat can also be colored, long or slightly above the knee, strictly very soft and wraparound. The colors? All natural tones with some shocking variations such as red, pink, electric blue. By Cedric Charlier, Tod’s, The Row. …
Polka-dot trend
White, paired with blue, black and red… fun, ironic and joyful. Down the runway by Giambattista Valli and Emporio Armani. Loewe is more daring: the polka dots are huge spheres, in unusual colors (yellow and brown, black and orange) and spread over dresses and accessories. …
Shirts and Turtlenecks, together!
The undershirt is the newest fashion trend and turtlenecks are worn under the shirt. Women’s shirts should be men’s-style, striped or denim, very long or medium-long, but never short. Down the runway by Cèline, Fendi, Calvin Klein, Louis Vuitton. …
Knitwear trends
Soft, delicate, wrap-around, maxi. Knits become must-haves and come in all the shades of hazelnut. And styles? The classic woolen sweater worn over a romantic skirt or a turtleneck with very high-waisted pants; with showy sleeves and contrasting inlays in the evening.
By Michael Kors, MaxMara, Jil Sander. …
Feathers Trends
They move along the border of coats and dresses in the slightest wind and charge the wearer with sophisticated charm. They decorate shoes and embellish bags, and not for evening wear, but mostly for casual daywear. Down the runway by Prada. …
Fur coats trends
There is no compromise with this season’s fur coats: either short and super colorful or long with revers and basically in natural tones such as honey, camel, mud and chocolate. This winter’s trendiest fur coat is seventies-style, to be worn even over a sweatsuit. However, the Parisian runway looks are more daring, with the successful vintage and custom-made mix: eighties-style shearling coats, faux fur coats like those by Miu Miu with contrasting collars and the fantastic pink leather jacket by McQueen. And then there are the fur collars that make any vest, duster coat or trench-coat look luxurious. By Dries Van Noten and Loewe. …
Shoes trends!
High, over-the-knee boots, like those seen at Fendi’s show. Or lower, but strictly pointed or super squared. Shoes only with visible socks, perhaps in this winter’s hottest color: red. The focus is on heels, which are stiletto, geometric or sculpture-like. Fur-lined slippers are still going strong. By Saint Laurent, Cèline, Prada. …
Bags trends 2018
Micro or macro? There are the mini shoulder bags with jeweled details and chain handle, the maxi clutches or the evergreen duffle handbags. Fifties-style if carried by hand, seventies-style over the shoulder and eighties-style if flat and envelope-shaped. After last year’s double bags, here come the triple ones, same shape but different colors! Dolce & Gabbana, Mulberry, Coach. …