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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.
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.
Between Alexander Wang and DKNY, the two pace-setting New York designers are taking the logo to the next level. In an over-the-top throwback to old school New York streetwear, both designers went all out, think in-your-face prints at DKNY and laser cut everything (skirts, crop tops, coats, gloves) at Wang.
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Spring 2014 Crop Top Trend Rag Bone
CROP TOPS
Time to renew that Pilates membership because toned abs and crop tops are cropping up once again all over spring runways. From halters at Rag & Bone and athletic brights at DKNY to structured with lace at Jill Stuart and laser-cut mesh at Alexander Wang, these new crops aren’t for the faint of heart.
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Spring 2014 Sheer Trend Jeremy Laing
SHEER
When designers weren’t endorsing bare midriffs with full on crop tops, they were hinting at it with suggestively sheer fabrics. We saw sheer stripes at Peter Som and Tibi, see-through layers at Jason Wu and Jeremy Laing, and sheer fabrics remixed with prints and patterns at Rebecca Taylor and Ostwald Helgason.
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Spring 2014 Minimalism Trend DKNY
‘90s MINIMALISM
Designers are still stuck in the ‘90s for spring, but this season grunge and punk have given way to the crisp, clean minimalism of the late ‘90s. Delicate spaghetti-strapped slip dresses ruled at Jason Wu and DKNY, while Helmut Lang and Rag & Bone endorsed the season’s new minimalism in seriously simple suits and separates.
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Spring 2014 Sage Green Trend Lacoste
SAGE GREEN
Signaling fresh spring renewal, we’re spotting sage green all over New York runways. Jason Wu did it in a pale sage short suit and organza dresses, while Ruffian’s silk cotton pantsuit played up the shade’s ocean-y undertones. Meanwhile, Lacoste toned down it’s signature shade for tennis court-ready looks in preppy pale green.
The first half of New York Fashion Week Spring flew by in a flurry of silk chiffon and pretty prints and although it’s still early days, we’re already noticing some key looks emerging on runways. Here are the top 5 trends on our radar for Spring 2014 so far.
This elegant nude dress from Zara just got marked down, meaning the chic details and two-tone colours can be all yours for a fraction of its original cost. Zara short front dress ($40, zara.com
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Sarah Casselman, joined by H&M’s show room manager and all-round stylish person, Karen Richter, show you how to tackle some of spring’s trickiest trends–sheer, mixed patterns, double denim and more! Model: Asha at Ford Models, fordmodels.com