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For Spring/Summer 2023, designers are adding drama to looks with purple, rather than easier, crowd-pleasing hues. The innocence of childhood has also emerged as an inspiration and an escape for our complex times. And for those ready to really get dressed up again, plenty of fresh, relaxed takes on old formal codes await you.
Kids’ stuff
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Grown-up woes got you down? Channel your inner child with the help of some of fashion’s boldest creatives. Known for his zany sense of humour, Moschino creative director Jeremy Scott sought to convey the feeling of buoyancy into his spring women’s collection — literally.
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Aside from adding inflatable lapels to jackets and flotation devices to cocktail dresses, he also used colourful pool floats to complement a draped dress printed all over with cartoon animals.
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At Louis Vuitton’s men’s show, the design team paid tribute to the power of imagination and the different ways in which we realise our ideas as we move from childhood to adulthood. As part of the theme of childhood, models wore folded “paper” hats that were made from leather and a formal coat was decked out with leather “paper” planes.
