BANGKOK FABULOUS
Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes fashion’s answer to a big tube of Love Hearts: pastels. Powder pinks, dusty lilacs, soft butter yellow and duck egg blues all scream spring style and cutesy, girly love-y stuff.
If you can envisage a tiny version of yourself wearing it whilst sitting atop a pile of fluffy icing on a cupcake, you’ve nailed it. Bangkok Fabulous isn’t entirely sure if that’s the look your date would want you to sport on Valentine’s Day, but what do they know? They don’t understand fashion.
And don’t even think about balancing the pretty pastel look out by ‘toughening it up’, as fashion is usually so fond of doing if a look ever seems to err on the side of feminine. Nope, with this trend, we’re all about looking as cute as we can, so forget pairing your pinks with biker jackets, statement jewelry or leather boots, and instead delve into your wardrobe for even more sweetie-toned delights – and don’t emerge from that closet until you look so sweet that you could make children’s teeth fall out.
Chanel achieved this season’s pastel look with a frothy layered pink skirt paired with a moss green tabard-top and flats, Dolce & Gabbana went all-out with a full-length floral lace dress in baby blue, while Jonathan Saunders and Louis Vuitton opted for a dip-dyed effect on white. In fact, in a rare aligning of the stars, pretty much every designer you can name sent their models down the runway looking moody in pastels. We’re talking Valentino, Prada, Versace, Christopher Kane, Alexander McQueen and Givenchy, to name but a few. This is serious fashion fodder right now.
But, perhaps the most Bangkok Fabulous look (or, at least this writer’s favourite look) was 3.1 Phillip Lim, whose simple layered tank-top of block-coloured orange on lilac paired with the palest of yellow trousers. Always a master of the separates, the entire collection was chock-full of sporty, wearable pieces, such as silk trousers, slouchy jackets in sheer, delicate fabrics and flowing culottes. Neutral shades and pastels without fussy detailing gave the collection the effect of a fashion palette cleansing; the perfect balance of sweet and refreshing. Sorbet for the stylish, if you will.
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