Trends S/S 2012
Enthusiastic, uninhibited and optimistic. Such are the proposals of the designers for a colourful and bold spring, with the colour of the Mediterranean Sea.
It all ends (or begins...) this 2012 and the spring anticipates what will come, full of optimism, a desire to wear clothes in the sun and go to play (and play, it’s no coincidence that this is also an Olympic year) with the other gifts of the summer.
Men take off their corsets and become less rigid. Manliness is open to question, and without giving it more turns, he wears whatever he want; and cares little who will judge it. The ankle is out in the air on the catwalks of, for example, Christian Dior and the shorts are smartened up at Etro for the more extroverted.
The narrow silhouette of the classic and nostalgic sixties joins Neil Barrett the checked fabrics at Neil Barrett in elegant seriousness. The basic wardrobe is made up of garments in neutral or slightly sun burnt colours like at Acne that also introduces indigo, the colour of the season. Because the season is colourful (and sometimes brilliant), but mostly it is blue. A blue seen in Band of Outsiders, Bottega Veneta (in eighties denim), Canali, Martin Margiela and Jil Sander that opts for the infallible navy blue.
In line with the favourite colour of the star of the biopic of the year, the Thatcher blue. With her a categorical look was created in the blink of an eye. The inevitable technological part joins naive and soft cardigans such as the ones by Hermès and is mixed with new fabrics from for example Lanvin, who then connects with slightly frayed or quilted garments.
And on all sides, from all the trenches: the shirt. Winning the championship previously played by the denim jackets or light jackets, or even the t-shirt, its fiercest rival. Crazy in Prada, oxford-like such as the ones from Thom Browne, with high collars at Tom Ford or or versatile and stylish by Paul Smith. The perfect spring to pack for a summer that is sensed to be, more than ever, eternal... and blue.