Photos: Vogue s Guide to Spring 2014 Fashion
Spring 2014 is about transformative clothes. It’s about boiling down everything that was on the runways to the one thing (or 75-plus things) to buy next season that will instantly update a look. And the statements are simple: Try a longer skirt, one that hits midcalf or the upper ankle. Feel the power of flowers, whether they’re rendered as South American embroideries or giant South Pacific hibiscus. Take cues from your favorite gallery and wear something artful. This season, there is fashion for every personality.
1/121Pictured: Marc Jacobs, Christian Dior, Proenza Schouler
Photo: Yannis Vlamos/Indigitalimages.com2/121**Kors’**s beautiful show radiated the happiness and confidence that is the soul of American fashion.
Photo: Fabio Iona/Indigitalimages.com3/121**Jacobs’**s gloriously embellished, Victorian-era skate-surf punks emerged from a dramatic backdrop of black sand dunes, moored pirate ships, and an abandoned bus bound for Sleepy Hollow.
Photo: Monica Feudi/FeudiGuaineri.com4/121Metallics, pleats, and a cool, seventies vibe characterized Jack McCollough and **Lazaro Hernandez’**s stellar collection, which drew from the interiors of architects and designers like Joe Colombo and Paul Rudolph, the monumental organic furniture of the Brazilian Sergio Rodrigues, and the North Californian J. B. Blunk.
Photo: Courtesy of Christopher Kane5/121You have to love the way Kane describes his collections. Spring, he said, was “sex ed, biology textbooks, and Jean-Léon Gérôme’s paintings of girls being sold in a marketplace in Roman times, with all this drapery and hands plucking their clothes off.”