10 Fashion 2022 Trends That Define the Spring Season
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As the industry snapped back to the usual fashion 2022 Trends month
rhythms, the collections that stood out after four weeks of runway shows had
less to do with garments and more to do with new modes of presenting fashion 2022 Trends.
As per our seasonal recap, the shows that we will remember from spring 2022 are
the lively experiments that redefined what a show could be, like Balenciaga’s
The Simpsons episode, Balmain’s music festival, and Marni’s performance piece
with an audience fully outfitted in upcycled Marni wares.
But what of silhouette, texture and color, and material
development? The emphasis on shows and showiness actually seems to have freed
up designers’ thinking when it comes to clothes. We got everything from Grecian
draping at Loewe to exposed torsos at Miu Miu and crisp little skirt suits at
Christian Dior. Both Marine Serre and Dries Van Noten put an emphasis on
you-have-to-touch-it texture while Botter’s Rushemy Botter and Lisi Herrebrugh
and Sunnei’s Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo created sleek surfwear and stripes
that come alive on a laptop or phone screen.
Thebe Magugu and Luar’s Raul Lopez rethought the trench as
the season’s must-have outerwear while Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière and
Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli placed their bets on dramatic capes. Rodarte
offered holistic sun salutations and Stella McCartney turned mushrooms into
bags. Riccardo Tisci perfected the bum-reveal at Burberry while Mike Eckhaus
and Zoe Latta did it with transparent garments that covered up as much as they
exposed.
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Did it all congeal neatly? No, but doesn’t fashion 2022 Trends that’s a
little all over the place and yet vibrant, exciting, and fearlessly weird feel
right for right now? So, here are 10 fashion 2022 Trends to try for spring. No basics. No
boring thoughts. No rehashing territory and not a pantsuit in sight! Spring
2022 is the time to try something new. Do you dare?
Mini-Skirt Suits with Major Impact
Chanel
Maria Grazia Chiuri hit the right note for réentrée dressing
at Christian Dior, leaving the structure and volupté of the New Look behind for
a spritely slim look first introduced by Marc Bohan at Dior in 1961. At
Virginie Viard’s Chanel, a similarly carefree spirit emerged, with models like
Quannah Chasinghorse and Vittoria Ceretti camping it up on the runway in
classic Chanel suits. Even if the catwalks evoke the ’60s or the ’80s, the look
of a short-short skirt and blazer remains thoroughly modern. Just ask Olivia
Rodrigo, who has made the skirt suit her preppy, punky signature.
Solar Power Colors for the Beach, the Office, and the Nail Salon
Chloé
Rodarte closed its spring 2022 show with a sun salutation,
but the sisters Mulleavy aren’t the only ones with Vitamin D on the mind. Solar
shades like gold, bronze, amber, and marigold abound in collections from
Proenza Schouler, Chloé, and many others. All the more reason to go outside
this spring—with SPF of course.
Make an Exit With Tails and Trains
Prada
Never has the back view of a garment seemed so essential. At
Prada, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons sliced open the backs of their minidresses
and adorned them with long satin trains. Courregès’s Nicolas Di Felice had a
similar idea, extending minis several feet behind models, while Louis Vuitton,
Rick Owens, and Valentino all showed capes. All the better for making a
dramatic exit.
Maximum Midriff
Maryam Nassir Zadeh
Forget collarbones, décolletage, or thighs, fashion 2022 Trends’s new
erogenous zone is the torso. At Miu Miu, midriffs went from underboob to
upper-pube; ditto at Coperni, Isabel Marant, and even Giorgio Armani. But as
many have pointed out, fashion 2022 Trends’s new crop tops and low-rise pants have become a
mode to emphasize thinness—an especially retrograde idea. Props to Maryam
Nassir Zadeh, KNWLS, Collina Strada, and Chromat for showing the look on models
with curves. Everyone else, please take note!
Trenches Get Twisted
Balenciaga
A classic beige trench is a forever wardrobe staple—but the
styles shown at Burberry, Thebe Magugu, and Balenciaga are anything but basic.
Riccardo Tisci cut out the backs of his trenches; Magugu created one inspired
by one his mother wore outside their home in Kimberly, South Africa, and
Balencaiga splattered its version with paint and tugged it off the shoulder.
Luar’s trench isn’t really a trench at all, but an overcoat cinched with a
single leather band. Dua Lipa’s already worn it; will you?
Stripes That Look Good IRL and URL
Tory Burch
Leave it to Marni’s Francesco Risso to get poetic about
prints: “Stripes are strongly associated with direction, where daisies are new
beginnings and resilience,” he said after his spiritual show. Florals for
spring, you know, are not exactly groundbreaking, but his reliance on sinuous
bold stripes definitely takes fashion 2022 Trends in a new direction. The same goes for
Tory Burch’s mid-century color-blocking, Kenneth Ize’s artful woven lines, and
Sunnei’s rugby stripes. Schiaparelli’s Daniel Roseberry said his bold
red-and-white looks have a “David Lynch holiday” vibe. No blasé nautical tops
here!
You’re a Goddess and Your Body is a Temple
Loewe
Dimitra Petsa’s wet-look dresses were the look of lockdown,
with starlets and It Girls like Gigi Hadid, Yseult, and Kylie Jenner choosing
her dripping dresses for red carpets and Instagram posts. Grecian draping has
radiated outside Athens, with Rick Owens, Richard Malone, and Loewe’s Jonathan
Anderson offering up their own surreal bias pieces on the runway. Think of them
as a counter to the overt sexiness of the midriff fashion 2022 Trends; a subtler way to
emphasize the female form.
Tops That Pop, Fluff, and Fray
Dries Van Noten
Despite showing their collections as films, both Dries Van
Noten and Marine Serre made the case for clothing that has to be touched.
Popcorn tops, popular in the ’90s, appeared in both designer’s collections,
though credit has to go to the young upstart Chet Lo who has made the feel-good
fabric his signature. Elsewhere, Diesel’s Glenn Martens scrunched up denim
while Jil Sander, Chopova Lowena, and Undercover put an emphasis on fluff.
You’ve got to feel it to believe it.
Beachwear Beats Ready-to-Wear
Coperni
Beachy wetsuits, cute bathing suits, and surfer girl color
palettes appeared at Chanel, Botter, Atlein, Anna Sui, and Rejina Pyo. The
surfer spirit might be emanating from Venice Beach, where ERL’s Eli Russell
Linnetz has made sunkissed and worn-in sweaters a staple of his collection; or
maybe it’s coming from Melbourne? The sisters behind Kiko Kostadinov’s
womenswear collection channeled their Aussie summers for a collection of
seashell-strewn minis and quirky beachwear.
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Rick Owens
Showing your black knickers under a transparent pair of
Eckhaus Latta trousers or a Maximilian dress will be the best way to suggest a
little sexiness without showing any skin. The shimmering, transparent cyber
gray fabric and see-through black and beige are reminiscent of Helmut Lang’s
best pieces; no surprise that the new iteration of Helmut Lang’s brand has
plenty of sheer panels and bodysuits.
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