Sunday, January 11, 2009

What's Haute in Twenty-O-Nine

A
Asymmetric (single-shouldered dresses, toga styles, one-legged all-in-ones, skirts that don't know whether to be long or short)

B
Ballerinas (lace, ribbons and ruffled princess dresses)
Blazers (mannish, or with cropped sleeves)
Bows

C
Clustered embellishments (pile them up anywhere you like)
Colours - neon bright or very muted variations of nude
Corsages
Cropped, blousy trousers
Crumpled fabrics

D
Dots

E
Earrings (huge ones)
Eighties

F
Feathers
Fringing
Futurism

G
Gold

H
Harem pants
Head gear

I
Intricate tailoring

J
Jade green
Jumpsuits and rompers

K
Killer heels - never mind the broken ankles!

L
Layering (hems on hems; cardigans on cardigans)
Leggings
Long fine cardigans
Long skirts

M
Metallic leather
Monochrome

N
Necklaces (huge ones)
Neons - scattered liberally over the collections
Nudes

O
Orientalism
Orange

P
Pearls
Perforation
Pink
Pleats

Q
Quiffs (a tuft of hair brushed up above the forehead)

R
Ruffles - they're hand in hand with pleats.

S
Seventies
Sequins
Sheer
Shorts
Shrunken jackets
Snakeskin
Suits
Spectrums of blue
Spectrums of green - Everywhere.
Squishy bags (scrunched in the hand)
Summer suede

T
Transparent outerwear
Tribal
Twenties

U
Up-dos - major chignons

V
Voluminous backs

W
Waistcoats

X
X-traordinary (ok I made this up)

Y
Yellow

Z
Zips



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