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We’re coveting the crease this season, with designers like Proenza Schouler, Thakoon, Chanel and Christian Dior making the pleated skirt a must-have for Spring 2014. Here, we break down 3 new ways to wear the style, from punching it up with tropical accents to adding metallic accents and more.

After a slow start, it looks like spring is finally here. Months of ogling new arrivals has prepped us for taking the Spring 2014 trend plunge and while some (read: crop tops) seem made exclusively for those size zero girls, fear not: I’m here to teach you how to appropriate Spring 2014’s top trends for the plus size girl.
Since reawakening the drab wintery closet of a plus size girl may be limited as there aren’t as many on-trend offerings, it’s easy to get intimidated. And while your go-to retailer of extended sizes may not always have what you want, it takes a little ingenuity to scour the petite section for curvy-friendly pieces with a little give or the glorious two-way stretch. Before you go shopping, here’s some outfit inspiration on Spring 2014 trends for the girl with a little more.

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This season’s early adopter likes her tops boxy, her prints arty and her pleats as plentiful as they can be. In this photo shoot from our March 2014 issue, we meet spring’s new woman: Lady 2.0.

  References to hibernation aside, spring always feels like a reawakening. This season’s runways offered a series of wake-up calls by way of unique pairings, new approaches to femininity and dramatic looks. The constantly re-emerging athletic trend has gone straight up hood, with street-approved jerseys, retro bombers and low-slung pants giving it new life. Tommy […]

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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

See our pink shopping picks » A welcome change for girly girls everywhere, fall’s pink trend has has ushered femininity back into the trendsphere with gusto. At collections including Carven, Simone Rocha and 3.1 Phillip Lim, the shade was made modern with the use of sport fabrics like neoprene and on oversized fluffy overcoats. Last […]

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Already noticed on A-listers in the front row, monochromatic outfits were big on the streets on day two of Milan Fashion Week Spring 2014. And not just any shade: We’re talking about bold, standout primary colours—right in line, actually, with the Max Mara Spring 2014 collection. One street style star looked stellar in head to toe red, complete with chic black accessories (including a lifelike kitty clutch!), while another rocked canary yellow pants as she gave our photographer, Sophie Mhabille, her best Kristen Stewart impression. Known for her feminine poised style, Giovanna Battaglia also embraced the monochrome look in a baby blue printed shirt and polka dot tulip skirt.

Speaking of prints (which continues to be the most popular trend), Milan’s streets were filled with a whirlwind of stylish ladies in various printed dresses and skirts—tartan, floral, gingham you name it! With the sun blazing in Milan on the official last days of summer, we’re sensing the street style stars are taking full advantage of the warmer weather and squeezing out the very last wears of their summer outfits.

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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.

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Preen Spring 2014

Blue moon

Pale pink continues as a favourite for Spring 2014 with even the typically-strict strict Jean Pierre Bragaza dipping a toe into girl territory, though blue seemed most popular in varying shades—baby at Preen, denim at Holly Fulton, cobalt at David Koma and Topshop in all of the above.

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Mulberry Spring 2014

Flora and fauna

Forget Miranda Priestley, designers are going full steam ahead with florals and nature-inspired prints for Spring 2014. At Mulberry, Emma Hill went out with bang-on floral-woven jacquard short suits and floral-appliqued signature tote bags for her last collection as the brand’s creative director. At Matthew Williamson, pink and yellow appliques found themselves on sixties-styled cocktail dresses while butterfly prints made their way down a swishy wideleg pant.

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JW Anderson Spring 2014

Sheer window

Nip slips seem the thing for Spring 2014. At J.W Anderson, pinched and pleated gauze-like nylon (or was it nylon?) gave way to his frothier side, ofttimes exposing skin whole.

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Emilia Wickstead Spring 2014

Trapeze

This sixties favourite has been revved up for spring by London’s feminine set. Emilia Wickstead showed long billowing versions of the style in striking bright combos. Temperley’s two-piece version of the style layered magentas in varying brightness over one another.

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Topshop Unique Spring 2014

Slip dresses

The nineties focus has ushered the slip dress back into our consciousness so forcefully that I can barely remember a time when it wasn’t. Topshop Unique’s considerably pared back spring featured two versions of the trend: cropped boho and ankle-grazing print-mixed silk. Under cool girl silk layers, Jonathan Saunders went tie-dye-like with green and blue on a striking peachy number.

We’re into the first few days of shows from London Fashion Week Spring 2014 and as per usual, this city’s penchant for girlish quirk has consumed us whole. Very much a natural progression from what was shown in both spring and fall of this year, London’s top talents seem to be giving us more of the same, but with a new spin. Who said there was ever enough of a good thing?

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We’re already more than halfway through New York Fashion Week Spring 2014 (day five to be exact) and the street style stars just keep knocking it out of the park, layer by layer.

While the crop top is certainly a mainstay, our cross border friends proclaimed their love for the Canadian tuxedo. Case in point: this fashion enthusiast who strutted the streets in a full on onesie carrying not one but four 3.1 Phillip Lim shopping bags (We’d love to be her friend).

While fashion show regulars like Caroline Issa and Miroslava Duma flirted with the black and white trend, Man Repeller aka Leandra Medine played with a softer side with a pastel pink oversized blazer.

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The sun was out on day four of New York Fashion Week Spring 2014. So were the style stars and their accessories. Carine Roitfeld’s wrap-around sunglasses were totally Star Trek and totally amazing. Just as great was Giovanna Battaglia’s pilgrim belt that was so wide it could probably double as a shirt (see below re: crop tops).  But it was neckgear that was the must-have accessory of the moment. These jewels were so chunky they were essentially clavicle armour. Case in point: Man Repeller Leandra Medine’s Frankensteinian choker.

Also out in full force? Shoulders. Like those of Moda Operandi’s Taylor Tomasi Hill and Danielle Prescod, who were just two of the showgoers to embrace the off the shoulder and strapless looks. And it if wasn’t a shoulder it was (still!) definitely a tummy. If the sidewalks have anything to say about it, crop tops will be around for a while.