Carolina Herrera Resort 2012 Collection
I came across this collection today on www.fashioncollections.org, and I literally saved just about every image in the lookbook. The first thing that caught my eye was the vibrancy of the red and black poppy print on white. I love floral designs, but it's easy to go wrong with them if they're overdone or boring. This print, however, looks almost alive, the way the paint splatters seem to flow and drag along in the presence of some nonexistent wind. Upon taking a closer look at the other pieces in the collection, I was thrilled to find that they displayed a wide range of different patterns and designs, each different and yet harmonious with the next. Crisp, solid white gives way to blazing red, which turns the stage over to playful black and white polka dots, and finally to lavender and orange silk and flowing golden tulle.
As a bonus, each design reminded me of different eras in fashion history, which may have been a basis of inspiration for the collection. The two pictures posted today, for example, showcase pieces that bear resemblance to the day wear of the 1940's, during which knee-length dresses and collared tailored or trench coats, belted at the waist, became popular (and still are today, as this collection proves).
There are at least ten other looks from this collection that I want to post about at some point in the future. I think I will devote a few days especially to this collection, posting pictures in sets according to which era they belong in. I've been reading through 20th Century Fashion, by John Peacock, and the illustrations are incredibly useful in my mission to pinpoint certain trends fast. If I can figure out how to, I might try to upload scans of pages alongside historically-inspired picks of the day, to show the similarities between them.
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