Spring fashion trends: Leather, spikes and torn fishnets of punk trend

Spring fashion trends

Spring fashion trends leather, spikes and torn fishnets—a look back at punk's
wild influence on fashion.

Versace Leather, spikes and torn fishnets of punk trend

WHEN THE SEX PISTOLS BURST ONTO THE SCENE IN 1976, THEIR SPITTING
anarchist anthems were the antithesis of high fashion, lint these (lays, a studded
leather motorcycle jacket is as covet-worthy as a designer bag.

This May. the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York shines the spotlight on thisrebel-
lious movement with its latest Costume Institute exhibition, Punk: Chaos to Couture. In its
early days. British punk rock hands like The Clash forced safety pins through leather while
Pitti Smith, The Ramones and Blondie's Debbie I lam holed 11 pal New York's legendary dive
bar CBGB in tattered T-shirts and ripped jeans as a protest against the city's glitzy disco scene.

 Spring fashion trends

Designer Vivienne West wood's punk roots also run deep—in 1976 she cultivated
many of this era's DIY hallmarks at her London boutique, Seditionaries. which she
owned with then-boyfriend, visual artist and Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren.

The duos endlessly creative takes on rebellion helped shape the unofficial punk uni-
form, with reappropriated patriotic symbols including Queen Elizabeth IIs face and
the Union Jack. The movement's raw aesthetic gained mainstream appeal in 1977, when
British designer Zandra Rhodes used exposed seams, strategic rips and bondage-like
accents on her floor-length dresses.

Balmain 2011 Leather, spikes and torn fishnets of punk trend

Today, the punk fashion trend continues to be a source of inspiration for ready -to-wear designers
like  Jean Paul Gaultier. Comme des Garcons Rei Kawakubo and Givenchys RiccardoTisci.
The once-radical notion of safety pin embellishment has been reinterpreted so many times,
most notably by Gianui Versace in 1994 that it has become a fashion trends mainstay, while holes
and fabric deconstruction are considered a trademarks of contemporary labels like Rodarte.

Christopher Kane spring 2013 Leather, spikes and torn fishnets of punk trend

This spring, punk's fashion trends DIY logo T-shirts have been given a modern twist at 3.1 Phillip lain, Christopher Kane and Acne. And judging by fall's lineup of sliced and diced leather looks
and thick-soled black boots, punk continues to rock on in fashion trends.

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Fashion trends: decorative elements

Spring Fashion Trends

Today, the focus of our attention in spring fashion trends will be decorative elements, which is in large quantities in spring-summer 2013 fashion collections.

In recent times, largely due to advances in technology, many designers are turning to so called perforation method. Today, with the help of a laser can be creatde a beautiful textured pattern on the leather or other fabrics too and the result of this method can be seen, for example, in Carven, Loewe and Roberto Cavalli. Patterns that occur in their collections, remind us of the fashion trend of the past season, "Baroque".

Loewe

Roberto Cavalli 

Carven

Another alternative to the usual fabric prints in fashion trends of this season is embroidery, which can be performed not only with threads, but with beads or sequins. Both options are found in the collection of Isabel Marant. Also often decorative drawing is created by using colored decorative stones like Creatures of the Wind and Badgley Mishka.

Isabel Marant 

Another fashion trend's decorative option is a cross between embroidery and stripe, and found in Barbara Bui and Loewe fashion collections. The big figure like Barbara Bui is another echo of the trend of "Baroque" while flowers and birds applications of  Loewe refers more to the hippie era of the 1970s.

Barbara Bui 

And finally come the most popular of the decorative fashion trend options - the sequins. Many fashion designers added this element to their dresses,  some offered entirely sequin embroidered pieces, while others are limited only by fragments. Fully embroidered sequin dresses, skirts and pants found in Burberry Prorsum, Etro, Ashish, Blumarine and Diane von Furstenberg fashion collections. And number of brands are not limited just to sequins -so you will find  in models of Blumarine, Antonio Berardi and Etro their complementary pattern of crystals and colored stones shine even more.

Bottega Veneta, Burberry Prorsum 

Antonio Berardi, Etro

Ashish 

Blumarine 

Diane von Furstenberg