While seasonal fashion trends change as often as weather patterns, every season there are always a few standouts. This season, two trends in particular wear just as well off the runway as they do on, and can be employed in everything from clothing to handbags, accessories, jewelry, and more. Those two trends are metallics and Art Pop prints.
Metallics are certainly nothing new to the fashion world, having been the domain of evening wear for quite some time. This season, designers have released the metallic trend from it sartorial cage, allowing it to creep into the narrative of daywear. Haider Ackerman, Diane Von Furstenburg, and Lanvin all showed us metallic dressed-down daytime silhouettes in both their ready to wear clothing and handbag lines. The look is both casual and luxe, and while such a statement could easily become overkill, designers seemed to favor burnished metallics with coppery undertones that kept the look from becoming too bright and reflective.
The Art Pop prints that were so ubiquitous on the Spring 2014 runways are almost reminiscent of the bold graphic prints favored in the 80's, albeit reinvented with modern print technologies and sensibilities.
Although the boldness of the new Art Pop prints may not tickle everyone's fancy, there is one item on the list of must-have list of the season; Prada's feminist mural handbags are already making a splash on the arms of fashion editors the world over, and provide a bold graphic statement without having to resort to a full-on look.
