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Worldly Wardrobe: Foreign trends for Spring/Summer 2010

posted by ChickSpeak
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 8:26pm CST

With the arrival of spring and summer coming soon, it’s time for every chick to update their wardrobes with the latest trends of this new season.

To inspire your fashion choices, how about checking out some foreign clothing trends?

Trench Coat Dresses

The British Burberry showed several types of pastel color trench coat dresses in the runway of the London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010 that could be easily wore with soft leather waist-cincher, ankle booties and a nice pair of sunglasses. The collection can be seen here.

Digital Prints

Digital prints are a new trend for Spring/Summer as well; at LFW, designer Josh Goot, Mary Katrantzou, Matthew Williamson and Basso & Brooke used computer graphics to create digitally-manipulated prints in their collection of dresses, jackets, shorts and pants.

But wasn’t only in London that digital prints were taking over the runway. At the Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010 Alexander McQueen and Giorgio Armani at the Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010 also used digital prints in their collection’s dresses. View Armani’s collection here and McQueen’s collection here.

Tie Dye

The Hippies style technique, tie dye reigned at the British runways. With bright and shiny colors, designers Aquascutum and Basso & Brooke used the tie dye technique in dresses and tops that can be easily wore outside the fashion show. Tie dye works perfectly when used in a combination of colors or in a layered look, lighting up your summer wardrobe.

Dungarees

What seem to be coming back in this spring are the dungarees. French designer Jean Paul Gaultier presented a denim-colored silk but the simple blue-denim dungaree is back as well, which according to Vogue you can wear it “with a semi-sheer voile blouse or a supremely pretty camisole and natural tan heels.”

Transparent Fabrics

Transparency used with sophisticated fabrics and tailoring can work very well to give women a more sensual look. Versace put together at Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010 sheer fabric tops and dresses with summer colors, as lime-yellow, pistachio green and peach, which looks very elegant on warm summer days.

Military Theme

This trend was all over the runways of Paris, with Frech designer Jean Paul Gaultier and Belgium designer Dries Van Noten sending gorgeous army jackets, dresses and pants. According to the March edition of Vogue Paris, you can wear the army jackets with a thick belt and micro leather shorts or mix the army jackets with sequin cargo pants to look more dressed-up.

Accessories

Big bracelets or many bracelets in both arms are the latest trends for this spring and summer. Bow headbands in every style and forms are hitting the stores this spring as well. But don’t mix all together’; if you choose to wear a massive bracelet, try to wear a more outfit.

When comes to shoes, spindly heels are coming back this summer as well as wedge platform shoes. French Chanel introduced the wooden sole platform clogs and British Stella McCartney went for mid-low height heels and wedges in natural cork to heat up this season.

Débora Biasutti, a print journalism and political science student at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, has learned how to dress herself better since she arrived in England. She loves to go to Harrods in London and get lost in that high fashion world.