10 Fashion Trends to Give a Spring to Your Wardrobe

The 2013 Spring Ready-to-Wear collections presented at the New York, London, Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks is a celebration of fresh vibrant colors, strong architectural shapes and masterful tailoring. While pervasive trends like florals and colors reappeared with a new twist, we saw the return of sharp tailoring, Asian influences and the emergence of stripes as the hero graphic. The design houses from fashion’s famous capitals provides us a palette full of beautiful trends to try, and stylish ready-to-wear that’s incredibly fun to wear. Here, we present our top 10 fashion trends that’ll give a spring to your wardrobe.And you can also check our another blog: Spring 2013's Most Wearable Fashion Trends

Monochromatic Colors

A blazing spectrum of colors hit the Spring Summer 2013 runways. From warm hues of orange, red, yellow and pink to cool, serene hues of the ocean ranging from green, cobalt, turqoise, azure to cerulean, these color-wonderful shades lit up the outfits in vibrant flashes. Worn as a column of solid color as seen at Roksanda Ilincic, Carven, Gucci, Stella McCartney and Valentino, or in styles paired together in corresponding shades at Akris and Lanvin, this trend promises to brighten your wardrobe and moods.

Power Flowers

A perennial favorite on spring runways, designers up the ante this season as florals burst into 3D life, taking shape via embroidery and embellishment. Flower power was led by Raf Simon’s painterly metallic roses at Christian Dior, Dries van Noten’s showcased 3-D petals evoking Mexican paper flowers, and Prada outlined anemones and mums. Mary Katrantzou’s designs imbued high art, and Erdem, a master of all things perennial and posy, showcases textural and neon petals.

Other floral interpretations included sculpted blooms, sequined sprigs and textured lace bouquets. Trussardi and Vivienne Westwood Red Label kept florals ditsy, Viktor & Rolf opted for drama with silver roses, while Ralph Lauren and Bottega Veneta dipped into a vintage box of treasures to revive nostalgic patterns.

Shiny Sheens

Glitter, gleam and gloss hit the Spring Summer 2013 runways as fashion designers offered stunning designs in lustrous foils, precious-metal prints, iridescent fabrics to holographic finishes. Seen on separates such as tops and skirts, dresses and coats, shiny sheens were presented as day wear, in the form of matching them with neutral hues, and a bold, solid color by night.

Oriental Seduction

The Far East continues to be a rich source of visual appeal for designers. Asian thematic interpretations were wide ranging – from Prada’s digital-printed geishas, to Pucci’s louche Vietnamese ladies to Peter Pilotto’s power woman by way of India.

Japanese references was the primary source of the Oriental trend, with designs falling into two distinct camps. Fashion designers found common ground in the kimono jacket, where clean lines and lavish fabrics meet in harmony. Worn loose of belted, the kimono jacket is this season’s modern alternative to the summer jacket. Etro and Lanvin came out with martial arts influenced shapes for day dressing.

Other fashion designers choose decorative route with as dresses, pants and blouses featured embellished and embroidered oriental motifs as seen on Emilio Pucci’s exquisite silk dresses, and white origami folds and graphic blossoms at Prada. More subtlety, Celine’s knots and twists were are smartly origami.

Print Collage

There was no limit to the number of colors, fabrics and textures used to construct Spring Spring 2013′s fashion dresses, thereby passing on the decision of the perfect spring summer dress to buyers and shoppers a-like. Roksanda Ilincic fabricated a simple shift from more than 10 colored panels. Proenza Schoulder took it further, patch working strips of clashing leather and silk, spliced with facial images from micro-blogging site Tumblr, which it cited as a point of reference. Snake prints on chiffon and metallic leather provided the template for Preen’s collection, all appearing in one look white Holly Futon opted for bold symmetrical swirls. There was nothing random about these offerings: in color-blocking or prints colliding, this is design mastery at its best.

Summer Black

In a season of strong vibrant trends, the color black returned to bring softness to the Spring Summer 2013 collections. Black for day came in sweet summer dresses and lightweight layers, while evening wear was presented with textures, ruffles, pleats, lace and embellishments. Silhouettes showed a bit of skin such as slashed fronts, exposed midriffs and bare shoulders to lighten the overall feel of summer black.

Serious Frills

Drama and motion came to Spring Summer fashions with a froth of frills and ruffles at many design houses. Waterfall cascades, fluttering trims and delicate ripples decorated waists, hems, sleeves and necklines. What is interesting about this season’s frills is that they are voluminous yet mininalistic rather than frippery and girlie. As seen at Balenciaga and Gucci, outfits displayed sleek ruffles more architectural than sweet – done up in black, white and gray for instant impact.

Stripe Me

Designers embraced stripes as the word for Spring Summer 2013 fashion season. This linear pattern went horizontal, vertical, chevron, curved and zig-zag. Stripes were seen on Jonathan Saunders’ sequin dresses, ball gowns at Oscar de la Renta and Moschino’s candy stripe outfits, white Marc Jacobs experimented with long curved stripes with dazzling optical patterns.

Power Suits

Power suits returned to center stage for Spring Summer 2013 as fashion designers reinvented the two piece in a variety of distinctive silhouettes: strong-shouldered, double- or single-breasted, wide, or narrow. From city classics and ladylike numbers to casual cuts and avant-garde ensembles, the tailored suit received a much needed chic update. Christian Dior proposed a feminine interpretation of the tux, Giorgio Armani had a Friday casual suit and Giambattista Valli offered a vest version. This season’s sharp suiting is a welcome affair for career women who want to wear suits without looking like an investment banker.

Pure Whites

The white palette dominates Spring Summer 2013 fashion season and again, designers followed two distinctive camps on this color. Architectural takes and structured silhouettes were seen at Jill Sander, smart layers at Rag & Bone, and cool crisp colors at Rochas.

Artisanal applications on white were found in lacework, crochet, broderie and brocade – lavish detailings that brought a couture complexity to the simplest of pieces and turning the blank canvas of white into a work of art. Sun-bleached effect on sheer embroidery, lace and eyelet designs were seen at Valentino, Emilio Pucci and Prabul Gurung.(via libertystyle)