• Architectural Mix
  • Spring Fashion Trends 2012
  • Stadium Style
  • Spring 2012 Trends
  • 23 Feb 2012

    Architectural Mix

    Spring 2012 Strategy for Style Spring 2012 is stepping out in the right direction. In a season in which finish and polish is key, all sorts of modernist manners are moving the fashion pendulum forward, while nodding to the modernist architectural movement of the ‘60s. Strategic slices of color splicing and splashes abound, but this time around, designers are also mixing graphic pattern with metallics, counter alternative florals, fringe and even menswear style fabrications. Graphic...

  • 09 Feb 2012

    Foreign Affairs

    Spring 2012 Fashion Goes Global. Designers are going far afield for Spring, taking inspiration from the desert, Africa and Morocco with a modern twist, for a look that is at once both rustic and refined. Exemplified by exotic mixes of materials – matte and shine - and bold tribal patterns from Donna Karan’s sophisticated African patterned chic dresses and accessories to Michael Kors' rustic safari styles, to light as air djellabas, fashion is moving to a nomadic beat for Spring for...

  • 08 Feb 2012

    Stadium Chic

    Designers Raid the Locker Room for Spring 2012     Designers are raiding the locker room for Spring 2012, launching styles that marry sportive style with hi-style fabrications and colorations. From tennis to golf, from basketball to baseball, designers are mining sport style this season for some of the savviest style. Perhaps channeling actress Dominique Sanda’s 40’s tennis style in the 1970’s film, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis or the retro prep style of the...

  • 07 Feb 2012

    Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2012 Hi...

      Ah, Haute Couture: The glorious incarnation of our wildest sartorial fantasies. Twice a year, its visionary designers, together with their magician artisans, go to painstaking lengths to realize fashion’s most intriguing, exquisite hand–made...

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