FASHION Magazine
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Spring trends guide 2012
From ladylike lace to clashing prints, we present your complete guide to the top runway looks, the must-have items of the season and more!
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Sugar High: Soft pastels and frothy silhouettes are on the menu this spring
From left to right: Ralph Lauren, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Versace Spring 2012. Photography by Peter Stigter. By David Livingstone
Louis Vuitton show for Spring 2012 opened with the tinkling of a music box and the rising of a scrim to reveal a carousel carrying girls in pale dresses on cream-coloured ponies. It might have seemed a saccharine set-up, but such a response could just be a bad case of not getting it. The news of the season is gentle news. That’s what Marc Jacobs got so right at Louis Vuitton. All the white and those whitened pastels—a key colour trend, favoured by both traditionalists such as Ralph Lauren and more experimental types such as Christopher Kane and Hussein Chalayan—might have appeared to be borrowed from a bag of miniature marshmallows. But the candied palette was not there simply to satisfy a sweet tooth. It also appeals to a Bluetooth appetite when dished out in fabrics that are marvels of modern technology—things like foam organza, silk cellophane and laser-cut leatherette. For the theory-minded, it’s tempting to conclude from the fact that we live in times when you see toddlers dressed in skull patterns and infants swaddled in camo-print blankets that it’s only logical their moms should start playing with pink and baby blue.
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Art class: Quirky illustrations star in our Spring trend photo shoot
Photorealism, watercolours, freehand sketches, and computer-engineered florals bring originality and emotion to spring’s most eye-catching designs.
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The hit parade: 30 of the biggest, brightest, and boldest pieces of the season
Check out our shopping list of the sugary pastels, neon punches, and the surf prints that need to be in your closet this spring.
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Spring trend report: 114 of the top looks from New York, London, Milan, and Paris!
From ladylike lace to colourful clashing prints, we present your complete guide to Spring 2012’s freshest new runway looks.
VIEW BY TREND: SUGAR HIGH | WATER WORLD | GOOD SPORT | FULL BLOOM | CONCRETE JUNGLE | MIX MASTER | GRAPHIC CONTENT | ORANGE CRUSH | WAISTLAND | FINISHING TOUCHES
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Anaïs Pouliot: Our cover shoot, interview, and behind the scenes video with the fresh Canadian model
Photographed by Moo. Styled by Caitlan Moneta. Spring’s glistening skin and accentuated eyes pair with bold earrings for a lasting impression on our March cover star Anaïs Pouliot. Check out our stunning beauty shoot and read up on the brightest young homegrown thing.
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March 2012: Table of contents
ALWAYS IN FASHION
44 Fashionmagazine.com What’s going on online.
48 Letter from the editor
50 Contributors
52 Behind the scenes
54 Letters from our readersFASHIONFILE
60 NEWS Tiffany & Co.’s hot new metal, the coat to covet now, Karl Lagerfeld’s latest muse, Diane von Furstenberg goes pint-sized, and more.
64 ESSAY Soft pastels and frothy silhouettes are on the menu this spring. David Livingstone sinks his teeth into these sugary confections.
70 TREND REPORT From brights to black and white, and prints to peplums: your cheat sheet for the hottest Spring 2012 runway trends.
84 PROFILE Montreal’s Martin Lim takes first prize at the Mercedes-Benz Start Up Competition.
86 FLASHPOINT From Vancouver to Montreal, party-goers opt for knockout neutrals, metallics and
fruity brights.
91 THE LIST Our dream shopping list, the latest H&M designer collab, and market editor Jordan Porter’s personal spring picks. -
March 2012: Letter from the editor
Just last week, I was rumbling toward a Mexican beach in a golf cart with two friends, debating an article on trends that appeared in the January issue of Vanity Fair.Now back home, shivering despite a turtleneck and boots, I am writing about FASHION’s Spring 2012 Trend Issue and I can’t get that conversation out of my mind.
In the VF piece, writer Kurt Andersen asserts, among other things, that not much has changed style-wise over the past 20 years. That 2012 looks much like 1992. That jeans and sneakers remain a standard uniform for people of all ages. And that the proliferation of mid-priced retailers like Gap, Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie means practically anyone who wants to can shop stylishly, and this has resulted in an “all the same, all kind of cool” look on city streets.
Well, yes and no. Yes, there are fashion themes that now seem to endure from year to year. Once again spring is on the horizon and with it comes the annual crop of florals, crisp white cottons and tropical themes.
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