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When I was 14, a friend and her family picked me up to go to a play. When I got into the car, her normally reticent 18-year-old (and thus super-intriguing) brother said to me: “Wow, you smell amazing.” I had recently received my first bottle of Issey Miyake’s L’Eau d’Issey as a birthday request—I liked the idea of a watery smell and felt a Japanese designer was terribly sophisticated—and was taken with spraying it into the air above my head and twirling under the mist.

This encounter cemented my decades-long love for the ’90s classic (and for being told I smell great), during which time I collected many of the variations of it that came and went on the local department store counter like colourful siblings in town for a short visit. On a given day, I’d pick a version to match my mood: Summer of 2005 or 2008 if it was warm outside, A Drop of Cloud (2009) if I was feeling pensive, Fleur de Bois (2010) to cultivate a much-needed air of mystery. Somewhere along the way, I actually stopped wearing the original, since each new one offered what I loved about it along with a new and exciting twist.

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Your first time at any international fashion week will teach you a valuable lesson: You need a fur. And not just any Margot Tenenbaum style granny hand-me-down. A fur so intricately patterned, multi-layered and artificially coloured, that it has to be designer. Given its place at the apex of the top Fall 2014 trends, you’d think recessionary times were long gone—it’s virtually everywhere, from a hyper colour mink at Altuzarra to a fluffy red dress at Prada. Wear it with caution or as Dior prescribes, dangle it over your arm like it’s no big d. Let the fur fly, scruples or otherwise.

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With spring hovering that much closer, it’s finally time to recharge those warm weather wardrobes (insert smiley face emoji here). This season, there are a few key pieces that will easily transform your look, and we’re here to make that transition as easy as 1, 2, 3.

A ‘90s revival on the runways breathed new life into the slipdress, making it the ultimate wardrobe essential layered under knits, with plaid and camo. Meanwhile, sex appeal was made hip with the advent of the side-slit leather skirt on runways like Proenza Schouler and Reed Krakoff. The long-favoured bomber jacket also reappeared on the runway this season, in satin and with transparent touches at Marc by Marc Jacobs and Dries Van Noten. So get ready to ditch all that heavy winter gear and consider these three as your must-have items to elevate your look this spring

Jump to: THE SLIPDRESS | THE SIDE-SLIT SKIRT | THE BOMBER JACKET

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Ready to refresh your makeup bag? The beauty trends for Spring 2014 are all about colour, texture and letting your skin shine. Gone are last season’s moody berry shades, deep lips and velvet skin finishes. For Spring 2014, the top beauty trends include popsicle-orange lips, eyeshadows in every pastel shade under the sun and a whole lotta love for gold pigments. For those less inclined to pile on the product, good news: the no makeup makeup look is also trending this season.

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Though we’re already ahead of our wants, currently coveting into Fall 2014 by way of fashion week, there’s a bright new season ahead and our shopping brains are already thinking bare legs and bright hues. To get you in the Spring 2014 shopping mood, we swiped 15 amazing buys just-added to e-tailers around the web. And while they sure are pricey, they’ll pay off in #OOTD spades all season long. Just think of the Instagrams!

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There’s no denying Suki Waterhouse’s growing It girl status. The British actress and model (who also happens to be dating Bradley Cooper) has been tapped by Burberry as the face of the brand’s newest fragrance, Brit Rhythm. And based on the just-released campaign images, it’s clear that she was an excellent choice: Waterhouse’s bombshell domineer and edgy gaze complements the fragrance’s characteristics, described as “a blend of contradictions.”

The black and white digital campaign is set in a dark concert-hall venue and stars Waterhouse alongside British musician George Barnett of These New Puritans. The pair is caught in a sultry embrace right before walking off into a swarm of screaming fans and flashbulbs. (Because what’s more rock and roll than a steamy love fest before the show?)

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Fashion week is a little like Groundhog Day, isn’t it? Just as you get used to this season’s It bag, you’re thrust into the eye of another must-have storm. A month before we prepare to do it all over again, we look back at Spring 2014 and recount the best looks, most memorable moments and juiciest gossip from the front lines of fashion week. From Chanel’s selfie-primed runway space to Alexander Wang’s logomania, here are the 25 things you’ll need to know from New York to Paris and back again.

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Wraiths and spectres of all kinds haunted the fall runways. At Altuzarra, eyes were rimmed with “spooky” grey shadow and an ominous reddish blur; models wore a “ghostly” pallor and eerily shining eyes at Mary Katrantzou; Gareth Pugh’s soot-washed damsels looked as if they’d just entered the netherworld through a burning house; and nails were scrawled with “redrum” at The Blonds, a nod to The Shining.

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With the end of fashion week in Toronto marking the close of Spring 2014 show season, it’s time we looked back at all the trends that emerged. As much as the runway sets the pace for what’s to come for the top Spring 2014 trends, the streets play a major role as show-going trendsetters give us the relatable breakdown of how to wear what’s hot next season. Prints take two spots on our top Spring 2014 trends list through those with a painterly quality and those influenced by international cultures. At Hérmes, Rousseau-inspired water lily florals were printed on luxurious fabrics while at Diane Von Furstenberg, dresses and skirts depicting an African wilderness roared. As for fashionable time travel, prepare to keep reminiscing about the youthful 1990s, which haven’t ceased to get reincarnated season after season. Designers like Rodarte, Balmain and Jason Wu have reinvented the decade’s essentials yet again. To help with your daydreaming of long sunny spring days we’ve compiled the ultimate gallery of top Spring 2014 trends as dictated by the runways and our favourite street style stars in New York, London, Milan, Paris and Toronto! Feel free to let this be your guide to budgeting and creating closet space for next season’s must have pieces.

View by trend: 1. 1990s | 2. Art-Inspired | 3. Athletic | 4. Blue | 5. Crop Tops | 6. Embellishment | 7. Metallic | 8. Pleats | 9. Sheer | 10. Worldly

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Meadham Kirchhoff Spring 2014

5. Meadham Kirchoff

A Meadham Kirchoff show is nothing if not spectacle, and the duo’s Spring 2014 show had all the stylings of one—throbbing ominous music, bright orange Pipi Longstockings wigs, oversized wide brim hats. But the real standouts were underneath all that: a broderie anglais bib worn overtop a intricately beaded floor-length dress, a lace-trimmed gingham full skirt worn under a gold python swing coat and a sleeve-slashed take on the classic Chanel suit. Queen Elizabeth I meets Hitchcock meets pastoral living never looked this good.

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Burberry Spring 2014

4. Burberry

You can’t go wrong with pretty, and pretty is something Christopher Bailey does so well. Drop-shoulder felted coats were the perfect continuation of fall’s ice cream outerwear trend, while sheer pastel lace pencil skirts seem the perfect wardrobe essential this season. And speaking of pretty: consider a floral applique fold-over clutch your girlish must-have come spring.

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Simone Rocha Spring 2014

3. Simone Rocha

On the last day of shows, Rocha cemented her wunderkind status with a pearl-laden collection of way updated ladylike styles. Frilly plastic covered crochet cocktail dresses? It’s a bondage meets babydoll genius move. Double for see-through, pearl-trimmed panels draping the sides of full skirts. Triple for pearl-trimmed knee high socks and shrouded veils.

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Christoper Kane Spring 2014

1. Christopher Kane
There was no London collection as evenly well regarded as Christopher Kane’s for Spring 2014. “A revelation,” “highlight of fashion week,” “the best thing ever,” are only three versions of street buzz. A cross between science, psychedelia and an all-new take on florals, Kane raised his own personal bar higher than ever with popping text book applique on lace dresses, curved iridescent plastic insets on suiting and a dazzling metallic fuzz that made up skirt suits and dresses mid-way through the show. His cuts—midi length pleated A-line skirts, sophisticated suit jackets, ankle grazing slip dresses—are getting more and more mature each time. His everything else is what’s more modern than ever.

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Jonathan Saunders Spring 2013

2. Jonathan Saunders

If the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, than Jonathan Saunders Spring 2014 was great indeed. Styled together, the slouched silk track pants, Western style leather and suede mix jackets, intricate sheer lace button downs and layered tie-dye effect slip dresses were a lesson in cool girl styling. Alone, they were kaleidoscopic bursts of newness we’re itching to get our hands on.

In a flurry of florals, (Harry) Styles spottings and yes, digi prints, London Fashion Week has come to a close for Spring 2014. It’s been a slice, or rather, several, with many of the city’s young talents stepping up the world stage with clever reworks on the city’s signature style. Crisp femininity was more present than ever, proving perhaps that London’s finest are ready to lose the more is more street look its residents are famous for.

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Christopher Kane Spring 2014

A flower:

Call it psychedelic Georgia O’Keeffe, but Christopher Kane has analogized erogenous zones with bright popping floral appliques that made for jaw-dropping statements near the finale of his Spring 2014 outing. Post-show, he told Tim Blanks it was a tribute to the flora and fauna we are a product of—We need flowers and trees to live. More like I’m going to need that dress to live.

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Tom Ford Spring 2014

A disco ball:

The Tom Ford woman is no shrinking violet, and that was never clearer at last night’s spring show. Head to butt in mirror-covered lace, his mid-show dresses incited a light show of their own on the ceiling and walls of the photo pit at the end of the mirrored runway. The timid need not apply.

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Burberry Spring 2014

Chillin’:

Christopher Bailey went soft as an English rose, literally, with his Spring 2014 Burberry collection of relaxed merino coats, sheer English lace pencil skirts and chic granny panties in pastel hues. Drop shoulders and loose fits will make it especially easy to hide those late winter hot cocoa hits, so go on, pack on a few.

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Erdem Spring 2014

A boy:

Erdem was reportedly by schoolboy uniforms for spring, though I can’t imagine him ever veering too far from his signature femininity. Yesterday’s all black and white outing was as delicate as ever, with a lace bomber jacket and strapless floral applique pantsuit thrown in for good measure.

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Peter Pilotto Spring 2014

Another New Look:

Given Peter Pilotto and design partner Christopher de Vos’s fiercely future-y touch, it was interesting to see their prints, this time in acidic fluoro hues, take on an almost retro form. Wide layered paneling and full skirts made it way interesting.

Heartbreak is missing your first Christopher Kane show. But such was the case yesterday, not for lack of some hair-pulling cross town traffic, seriously herculean in-heels strides and fake doorman tears made by yours truly. Alas, the show went on to be the hit of London Fashion Week, bringing forth yet another translation of the female form for spring. Here are a few of yesterday’s options for us ladies come next season: A flower, a disco-ball, yes, we’re going there for Spring 2014.