Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Top 10 trends: # 5

# 5: Glitter
Who doesn't love a little sparkle? But instead of a uniform bathing in glitter, designers this season used gems and sequins to illustrate naturalistic shapes and images, often over a sheer backdrop. This means that your head-turning entrance will be evocative as well as glamorous.

TO PULL IT OFF: While many bright young things are irreverently donning sequin embellishments on droopy tees and tanks, I urge anyone over 25 to keep glitter for evening. It's not just appropriate, it simply makes a bigger impact against more mysterious lighting.

Could we be a little more French, please? Chanel, mais bien sur!


Classical vines adorned this prim dress at Miu Miu...


... and this red-carpet showstopper at Marchesa.

1 comment:

  1. i want these. i want to wear them everyday.
    to fancy parties, casual encounters, opening nights, dance class, funerals, concerts, mediation meetings, the therapists office, jet fuel, no frills, book clubs, uncomfortable first dates, the opera, karaoke at the grasshopper, airports, beaches in ghana, crack deals at 4am on parliament, bike rides on the don valley bike path, hiking the bolivian andes, and to the cobourg. you name the place, and i want to wear these dresses there. all three of them.

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