Spring/Summer 2014
Trend Forecast and Colour Direction
Lace clothing for spring 2014
By now it comes only natural to consider lace a substantial part of the spring wardrobe, especially as the dainty fabric did nothing but prove its relevance time and time again across the seasons. Both a must-have and the foundation allowing you to channel your creativity all throughout the warmer months, lace for spring 2014 reached a new height, coming across as impossibly refined, while undergoing an entire transformation. Feminine gone luxurious, lace has now modern written all over it.
All White
Continuing to influence the runways with its ethereal grace, white met lace and the two of them together
ended up shaping the one combination to rock all throughout spring and summer 2014. From pretty tops, to elegant ensembles and dainty dresses, there’s no limit to the number of ways allowing you integrate the two in your wardrobe. Key to sporting the trend this spring is to fully embrace your feminine side.
Pastels
From austere whites, to delicate pastels, the trnsition appeared to be smooth on the spring 2014 runways. Subtle shades of powder blue, lilac and light yellow managed to perfectly complement this season’s gentle take on lace. At Bur lightweight fabric redefined the key silhouette of the season, while at Tadashi Shoji and J.Mendel it was effortlessly worked into gorgeous graphic patterns.
Modern-inspired lace.
What spring 2014 brought to everyone’s attention is a particularly exciting take on the trend, as modern-inspired lace managed to melt the graphic creativity and the fine details into one effective new style. The lace’s unexpected metamorphosis, a cross between the cut-out and the sheer trends, paints the future in bright and beautiful colours, reminding us that the best is yet to come.
Slogan T-Shirts
That very short version of the history of the slogan t-shirt leaves a lot out and a lot simplified, but you get the idea. After market fakes devalued the practice of emblazoning brand names and brand slogans across everything, luxury again swung back to being synonymous with subtlety and it was rather a faux pas to walk around with a huge Von Dutch plastered across your chest. In 2006 Henry Holland’s “Fashion Groupie” t-shirts revived the whole statements-on-tshirts thing in a huge and unavoidable way: the concept became self-aware, and about fashion both celebrating and poking fun at itself.
Words will always implore us to take them in and assign them meaning, which is why the pieces that offer up fragments of text rather than actual slogans are sometimes the most interesting. The beauty of all words is, they’re always open to interpretation. And on that note, the one and only piece of advice in choosing which statement-making, sloganed or word-emblazoned pieces to buy: the less generic they are, the better.
Crop Top for SS14
There are a few trends amongst spring 2014′s fashions that aren’t new for the season. In a world where people increasingly feel that things are moving too fast, the fact that trends are wont to stick around for a few seasons is actually a nice thing. It not only offers continuity, but it also offers a longer lifespan to the quality statement pieces you include within your curated wardrobe. This spring / summer we see the crop top stick around for yet another year, continuing to feel fresh simply for the fact that it’s a trend that can never become over-saturated – it’s not for everyone
The Boxy crop top
You might remember the boxy crop top for being in last year, but it’s safe to say that its revised versions for 2014 look equally strong, as successfully proved by Narciso Rodrigues and Basharatyan. Dipped in clean, monochromatic tones and edged up with bold blocks of colour, the boxy crop top in both its sleeveless and long-sleeved renditions, is set to bring forward only the purest form of sophistication.
The chic crop top ensemble
This season’s novelty factor brought forward the chic crop top as part of a series of utterly feminine ensembles. Incorporated in strong deux-pieces, the short-sleeved crop top came adorned with flashy zippers and improved with asymmetrical lining, exposing just a hint of a perfectly toned midriff.
The Soft & Romantic Crop Top
As if to balance things out and make up for the large amount of skin exposed, the soft and romantic crop tops, cut in delicate lace and ethereal fabrics are perhaps the most feminine interpretations of the trend to have walked the spring / summer ’14 runways. Lovely and charming, they look best as paired to high-waist skirts, chic up-do’s and no accessories other than a sleek pair of sandals.
