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In All the Spring Fashion Looks, a Balance

It takes a steady compass to navigate the sea of contradictory impulses defining fashion now. Go big, the merchants, designers and trend forecasters will tell you as they tout the charms of outsize pants, crop tops and calf-grazing dresses, while in the same breath trumpeting the sexiness of tiny shapes.

Go for color, they will urge. Embrace the vibrancy of the audacious florals covering everything from maxi-skirts and mini-bags to lug-soled sandals and Birkenstocks. But keep in mind the undying allure of a crisp white shirt.

Dress down, they advise. Take the starchiness out of conventionally tailored pieces by teaming them with track-and-field looks. But don’t forget the virtues of formality.

How to make sense of such apparently conflicting messages? By incorporating elements of each, it seems, into a spring wardrobe or, when the mood dictates, into a single, riveting look.

Voluminous shapes and rigidly architectural outlines were some of the more compelling styles on spring catwalks. Labels like Proenza Schouler and Céline set the tone, offering up long, swingy knife-pleat skirts, tops with emphatically rounded shoulders and demi-rigid shapes that seemed to have been rendered on an AutoCAD program.


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Voluminous shapes and rigidly architectural outlines were some of the more compelling styles on spring catwalks. Labels like Proenza Schouler and Céline set the tone, offering up long, swingy knife-pleat skirts, tops with emphatically rounded shoulders and demi-rigid shapes that seemed to have been rendered on an AutoCAD program.

In keeping with that neo-Modernist mood, trousers and jeans were accommodating, their wide cuts, high waists and deep cuffs more headline-worthy than the jeggings and tattooed-on denims of recent years. Calvin Klein and Marni were among those making a persuasive case for big, easy pants ending in cuffs as wide as banners. And hemlines continued their downward drift.

Clearly the idea was that more is more. Of course, no one was suggesting that women shroud themselves in suffocating layers of cloth. Rather, the trick is in finding a balance between strict shapes and forgiving ones, in counterpointing billowing tops, skirts and trousers with discreetly cropped tops, some showing off a slice of skin and others grazing the tops of high-waist skirts and pants.

On the runways, it seemed, the objective was to highlight and reinforce contrasts, a mission that extends as well to the mixing and matching of ultrafeminine dresses with items borrowed from the boys; and of formally structured silhouettes with street-inflected athletic wear: the likes of an Alexander Wang semi-sheer sweatshirt inscribed with a tongue-in-cheek parental advisory logo, a pair of shiny J. Crew cycling pants with racing stripes or a Sacai garment in the label’s signature collisions of fabric — mesh, silk, chiffon and cotton shirting, say.

Worked cleverly, such pairings can produce a lively tension and, in unexpected moments, a harmony that rarely fails to please.

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Posted: 14:01, 17/4/2014
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