Back to the 80s? No, it's spring fashion

Some of these fresh preparations for the spring of 2019 could be seen on celebrities the weekend before the Emmy Awards or at the ceremony on Monday night.

Twice a year, New York Fashion Week launches a month of activity that continues in London, then in Milan and finally in Paris. London fashion week began on September 14th. Emerging themes in New York may cross the Atlantic, but designers from other countries may also have more experimental riffs on trends or launch new ones. Here is an article from New York Fashion Week:

Supersize

Continuing a trend born in the autumn 2018 collections of brands such as Balenciaga, Calvin Klein and Marc Jacobs, more designers have shown larger or outright oversized silhouettes for spring 2019. at Proenza Schouler. The designers have put an end to the era of body-to-body style, va-va-voom styles favored by Kim Kardashian West and others, at least for the moment. Marc Jacobs highlighted the trend with his show at the end of New York Fashion Week. So, next spring, go ahead or go home and change your outfit.

Bright colors

While the spring collections tend to be dynamic, what is remarkable this time is the bright, bright colors and good In addition to the neon lights, the shades were pastel to candy shades and saturated tones to brands such as Prabal Gurung, Pyer Moss and Michael Kors. Sies Marjan, a brand known for its sense of color, even played the role of R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People" on its show, where the models wore a mix of primary colors and earth tones and jewelry. Brandon Maxwell, a designer who used to make mostly black dresses, embraced color during his show with bright pink, fluo green, gold and candy red. The colors signal optimism and challenge in the middle of the city's overcast sky. They also issued a promising note on New York Fashion Week itself, which faces questions about its relevance. In these difficult times, designers and retailers rely on colors and prints to boost morale.

CIAO, STREETWEAR

With a few exceptions, the designers who showed up in New York resisted the attacks on Generation Y. Instead of slapping logos on clothing and associating them with thick-soled sneakers, Gabriela Hearst, Oscar de la Renta and other houses have doubled the styles of adults but not old. Even their casual sets tended to be polite. Many New York designers and retailers suffer from streetwear fatigue and are eager to bid farewell to the trend. Tom Ford said as much in the notes of his show: "I think that fashion has somewhat lost its way and it's easy for all of us to be drawn into trends that have lost touch with what women and men really want to wear. . So I did not want to make ironic or smart clothes, just beautiful clothes. Few creators are islands, and Mr. Ford's peers in London, Milan, and Paris may feel the same.

ELEGANT DENIM

Design houses, including Coach, Proenza Schouler and Zero + Maria Cornejo, have given these new stylish and sophisticated clothes, transforming the humble fabric into skirts, dresses, suits and coats. Michael Kors showed a denim jacket with flower buds. While denim has been a must-have item in the parade, raising denim in a more formal look favors the blur between casual and fashionable attire. That said, check with human resources before wearing these pieces at work: some companies still see denim as a no-no, even if "high".

ANIMALS

Many designers have committed to no longer use fur but have fallen in love with animal prints. Calvin Klein 205W39NYC, Christian Siriano and Baja East were among the labels that sometimes proposed to associate animal prints during the day with items ranging from longshoremen to T-shirts to jeans or sneakers. Call it a deflation of what appeared to be a bold style choice reserved only for the night. The creators of the New York Fashion Week parades sterilized leopard spots and tiger stripes to become NBD.

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