Micro-Trends at Fashion Week
We can wax poetic about the 70s revival until you’re orange suede in the face but what’s the use? Instead of identifying the overarching themes of the week (see: the anterior decade and Peter Pan’s worst nightmare — growing up), which you can no doubt do yourself, why not shift the collective focus to micro-trends that are as unassuming as a coconut in that they seem to offer nothing other than what stands before you (in the case of the coconut, that means a round, brown, hairy ball; in the case of the trends, that means a middle finger up at Mr. Pan) yet when cracked open are packed with nutrients and sugar that will not give you cancer. Or make you look like a dead person resurrected. Actually, that’s debatable, but here are eight of the mini guys we plan to put to practice as soon as right now.
Patent Leather: Because when the Matrix goes home to sleep, you, my friend, become Seveneth Avenue’s Latrix
Seen at: Isa Arfen, Rachel Comey, Tome, Rag & Bone, Suno, Calvin Klein
How to wear it now: Mostly as a jacket, over silk blouses and Peter Pan collars (see what I did there?) and gray knits, though if you take the Rachel Comey route and go balls-to-the-walls in a jumpsuit, I’d suggest a Victorian-style blouse, which you presumably bought at least one of yesterday, yes?
Fitted Jackets: Double breastuhses are still my breakfast, but I wouldn’t mind a side of curve for lunch
Seen at: Altuzarra, CG, Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein
How to wear them now: With high waist, flare leg pants because yesterday we called attention to their indefinite revival.
Non-Skinny Pants: Pizza-crust fanatics, rejoice!
Seen at: Everywhere that pants were shown
How to wear them now: When they’re not denim, wear them with your favorite graphic t-shirt. When they are, punch yourself in the face because you are so excited and opt for a cropped sweater and gold boots. Yes, gold.
Belts! Belts! Belts!: For when your fitted blazer is still a double-breasted “boyfriend” blazer
Seen at: Derek Lam, Jason Wu, Band of Outsiders
How to wear them now: I just told you, dangit. Over blazers that aren’t quite fitted but probably want to be given clause B. Also, though, through loop holes. Ground-breaking — I know!
Tasteful Cut-Outs: Pizza-crust, part two
Seen at: Cushnie et Ochs, Proenza Schouler, Alexander Wang
How to wear them now: With poplin blouses under them or if you’re feeling like a kind of Proenza Schouler reincarnate, do you own a fishnet body suit?
Velvet: Like you’re a mystery writer and involved in the most recent crime you’ve been journaling
Seen at: Rosie Assoulin, Derek Lam’s 10 Crosby, Rosetta Getty, Marc by Marc Jacobs
How to wear it now: Just like it’s khaki, or something.
Fabric Neck Covers: Like an umbrella, but for your cervical spine
Seen at: Tome, Altuzarra, Sally LaPointe
How to wear them (or make them) now: Around your neck like they are chokers or doubled-up around your wrist because you are as versatile as a municipal bond. And to make? All you need is one pair of scissors and at least one turtleneck you hate (you can also, by the way, use the non-neck to cut a strip then tie in behind your neck.)
Big Buttons: Go big, or freeze to death on your way home
Seen at: Edun, Derek Lam, Calvin Klein, Victoria Beckham, Marc Jacobs
How to wear them now: The Marc Jacobs way, seeing as he seems to be the patriarch of this trend. So, if you’re not going to glue them to your face à la Raggedy Ann, you may as well glue them to your chest à la Perry Ellis graduate.
And as for what’s not a trend, not not a trend?
Winter Swim Suits: The smartest and least conventional way to reimagine the kind of high brow heat-tech that engulfs you from inside
Seen at: Katie Ermilio and Kaelen. TBD on the international cities.
How to wear them now: Under your shirts, sweaters, pants, over your underwear. On the beach if you’re a lunatic, which hopefully, you are. (What? It gets lonely over here.)
Images via Style.com; more fashion week pizzazz (but not so much pizza) here.
