The Ultimate Guide to the Spring 2021 Fashion Trends

The Ultimate Guide to the Spring 2021 Fashion Trends - Vogue

The Ultimate Guide to the Spring 2021 Fashion Trends - Vogue
TikTok Fashion Month Kicks Off, Runs Through March 18 - Adweek
Men can wear dresses, get over it: Why fashion has no gender - RU Daily Targum
Fashion For All Ages - WSPA 7News
New York Fashion Week Already Has Breakout Stars. Will You Wear Them? - The Daily Beast

The Ultimate Guide to the Spring 2021 Fashion Trends - Vogue

Posted: 16 Feb 2021 06:05 AM PST

If there's been one fashion lesson learned during lockdown, it's that personal style doesn't disappear in difficult times. Exactly the opposite happens, if Vogue's street style portfolios and DIY challenges are any indication: Fashion lovers the world over are staying home, but they're still getting dressed and celebrating the joys of clothing.

The spring collections, which experienced a virtual makeover, provided plenty of inspiration for how to update our wardrobes at home. While we miss IRL fashion shows intensely—even thinking about the chaos of inching through traffic from one venue to another sparks wistful nostalgia—we're certain that as we enter the new season, we'll do it with a revitalized outlook on getting dressed. The designers we love certainly make the case for trying something lively and fresh, whether that means Nicolas Ghesquière's roomy cargo pants at Louis Vuitton or Miuccia Prada's micro miniskirts at Miu Miu.

In addition to surprising silhouettes like Loewe's voluminous dresses and Tom Ford's emphasis on surprising color combos, the spring 2021 shows also put forth the importance of thinking globally. To that end, models and photographers from around the world have captured the season's best looks and trends from New York City to Shanghai and everywhere in between. Until we can travel again and wear our Marni frocks in Mexico and our Givenchy jeans in Los Angeles, trying out spring's new trends at home will have to do.

TikTok Fashion Month Kicks Off, Runs Through March 18 - Adweek

Posted: 16 Feb 2021 02:52 PM PST

TikTok Fashion Month is back, with celebrities, creators, fashion houses and the video creation platform's community walking its virtual runway through March 18 via hashtags, livestreams and other initiatives.

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Men can wear dresses, get over it: Why fashion has no gender - RU Daily Targum

Posted: 16 Feb 2021 09:10 PM PST

Fashion is synonymous with personal expression: It's a large part of who we are, how we present ourselves and how others perceive us. It's supposed to make us feel comfortable and confident in our own skin, while also allowing us to showcase our individuality and personality. Whether you would personally categorize yourself as "stylish," at the end of the day, your fashion is a part of who you are.

Outside the rigid boundaries of the gender norms too often imposed by our society, fashion is a place where people can be whoever they want to be and provides us with the freedom to express ourselves in any way we want. And because fashion's main purpose is to promote individuality, it's, therefore, genderless.

While it seems that society has made great strides toward escaping the grasps of the traditional gender binary, both generally and in terms of fashion, this progress has really only come in recent years.

When I first think of the gender binary, I picture the classic portrait of a 1950s husband and wife, whose imagery projects harmful gender stereotypes on society. The man, a strong and handsome breadwinner, and the wife, a fit matron tasked with looking pretty and taking care of the household, were once the blueprint of how "both genders" should behave and look.

Fast forward to today, while some gender stereotypes may still be prevalent, people have certainly begun to fight back against traditional norms. For instance, society is beginning to recognize that gender and sex are not the same and that people can identify with whichever gender or identity they feel that they embody, regardless of their anatomy.

And in terms of fashion, we've seen it progressively drift further away from the gender binary. While there've been those who have challenged gendered fashion, like singers David Bowie or Prince, it's become much more common over recent years to see people wearing whatever they want regardless of their sex or gender.

Women dressing in "men's" clothes or men dressing in "women's" clothes are no longer atypical sights, and our generation has generally been more accepting of the idea that clothes are fundamentally genderless.

Celebrities like Ezra Miller, Billy Porter and Cara Delevingne are just some of the few prominent figures that often boast gender-neutral looks and defy the traditional gender binary of fashion, and in recent history, singer Harry Styles has joined this shift in fashion.

In November 2020, Styles was pictured on the cover of Vogue wearing a dress, which sparked a huge conversation regarding gendered fashion over social media. While many people supported and gushed over Styles' gender-bending outfit, there were others who publicly hated on his look.

One critic, conservative political commentator Candace Owens, said on Twitter that society ought to "Bring back manly men."

This tweet not only perpetuates harmful gender stereotypes but also suggests that men who wear traditionally "feminine clothes" can't also be "manly."

Styles' fashion choices do not in any way invalidate his identity as a man, nor his masculinity, but rather allows him to authentically express himself, regardless of what society thinks.

"Clothes are there to have fun with and experiment with and play with," Styles said, according to Vogue. "What's really exciting is that all of these lines are just kind of crumbling away. When you take away 'There's clothes for men, and there's clothes for women,' once you remove any barriers, obviously you open up the arena in which you can play."

When society perpetuates the idea that fashion is gendered, it ultimately only hinders our ability to not only develop our personal style but also the ability to genuinely show who we are — that's why it's so important to allow anyone, regardless of their sex or gender, to be free to explore and allow them to wear what they want to wear.

By destroying the boundaries of the gender binary in fashion, everyone can be who they truly are without having to conform to meaningless and oppressive societal standards that shouldn't even be there in the first place.

Fashion is genderless! Get over it. Wear that dress, rock that pantsuit, strut in those heels — the best look is wearing what makes you feel like you.

Fashion For All Ages - WSPA 7News

Posted: 16 Feb 2021 10:10 AM PST

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New York Fashion Week Already Has Breakout Stars. Will You Wear Them? - The Daily Beast

Posted: 16 Feb 2021 05:28 PM PST

Kimberly Goldson

Kimberly Goldson began designing her new collection right after she learned that Saks had picked up her eponymous clothing line. After nearly a decade in business, her dream had come true. So, as she told The Daily Beast last week, her fall collection "reflects where [the brand] has been—hidden in plain sight, but people are finally getting to know who we are. We feel seen, but we're still moving incognito."

That, along with the calls to "support Black designers" in the wake of the death of George Floyd last summer inspired Goldson to create her "Stealth Print." She hid her gilded "KG" logo into bold, geometric prints to symbolize how the brand had "hid in plain sight" before activists found them. It's not logomania, exactly—you won't notice the letters unless you look very, very closely. Ultimately, the expertly-tailored pieces stand on their own. It's a great mix of pandemic-friendly pieces like joggers and loose-fitting day dresses that ooze a comfortable glamour. Alaina Demopoulos

Dur Doux

Najla and Cynthia Burt, the mother/daughter duo behind Dur Doux, have never been drama-adverse in their designs. The brand is known for looks that are pure drama: layers of shocking neon tulle and sweeping trains are as natural to them as a little black dress. That's all very fun and still apparent in the fall collection, though Dur Doux has added a touch of realism—just a touch—that serves them well.

The collection, shot in DC's Perry Belmont House, features an extremely glamorous lineup of more wearable pieces, like knit bike shorts, a pleated chocolate faux-leather skirt, and canary yellow, bird-printed jacquard pants this writer would choose to live in if given the opportunity. Prediction: one of the more editorial looks, like the lattice cut-out body suit or wrap tulle bodysuit, will be featured in a music video by the time this year is up. Stylists, I dare you! AD

Dennis Basso

Longtime master of fur Dennis Basso typically goes big at New York Fashion Week, always has: gorgeous setting, Upper East Side ladies, and Real Housewives front row. But the pandemic has scaled operations back; the Basso video was shot in his New York City studio, where he notes proudly, everything was designed and made.

Two model pose in the studio's stairwell to model the 20-plus looks; yes, the color and drama are still there in the sequence of zchuched-up hooded coats and belted trenches. It just feels pandemic-muted. Instead of glitz, there is accessible wearability and polite splashes of color.

Focused on the heritage of the brand, this particular line, the show notes say, "is composed of primarily outerwear and fur in addition to a capsule collection of evening and occasion daywear. Luxurious cashmere, plaids, and velvets are artfully combined with sheared mink, fisher, fox, chinchilla, broadtail and sable." Like so many designers, Basso is determined to carry on, but watching him on video makes you also hope for the return of bigger stages, brighter lights, and delirious buzz ASAP. Tim Teeman

Alice+Olivia

Stacy Bendet's Alice+Olivia has been known for its maximalist presentations during fashion week, long eschewing the traditional runway show for a more immersive experience. Her online presentation on Tuesday stayed true to form via a boisterous modern Marie Antoinette daydream, which like her former IRL presentations, showcased not just the line's fashion, but its full aesthetic.

Bendet's models gallivanted around the streets of NYC dressed in a speculator array of 1990s grunge meets, French-court-romantic ensembles complete with tons of tartan, pleated mini skirts, houndstooth jackets, lace, reptile skin and dreamy jacquard dresses and shimmering pleated lamé silks. To complete the full Marie Antoinette vibe, models wore choker necklaces and tiaras while they tossed themselves on antique sofas and rejected petit fours. Bendet has always done maximalism like nobody's business, and her collection and presentation this year was a lovely escape into an exuberant world of prettiness. Sarah Shears

Sandy Liang

Like many of us, Sandy Liang has been thinking about her past during quarantine. Specifically, she's going back to her childhood as the daughter of Chinese immigrants living in Bayside, Queens. "I think about what my mom wore when I was growing up, and I couldn't understand why she always went back to her staples: shearling lined mules, unflattering corduroy pants, and her puffer vests," Liang wrote in show notes. "When I look at my closet today, I have to admit I often go back to the same things."

There were plenty of childish silhouettes in the fall lineup that evoke the kind of '90s nostalgia so often produced by kids who grew up, but were not adults, during that era. Think: longline black pleather Matrix jackets, fleeces paired with schoolgirl skirts, and plenty of pleats. It was if Reality Bites had been remade on TikTok. One exceptional, why-hasn't-anyone-thought-of-that-yet? piece was a dress that is fleece on top, black prairie skirt on the bottom. Comfort-obsessed cool kids will not be able to resist. AD