Preen Spring Summer 2012

Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi joined the pastel colour blocking club along with almost every other designer in New York. It’s super exclusive. I love Preen. Their cuts are often superb and they have a great eye for colour. To temper the sickly sweet pastels they threw in black and navy which really gave some balance to the pixelated prints. But Vera Wang and Philip Lim did the same thing so I guess they don’t score points for originality. Special mention goes to look 21, a white shirt with a sugary lemon cuff and a cornflower blue frill was paired with an ingeniously draped skirt. It’s so Alexa Chung it hurts.

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The Peplum

Clockwise from top left: Christian Siriano, Jason Wu, Vera Wang, Alexandre Herchcovitch.

Is every designer in New York going to the same trend forecaster because if they did, that fortune teller is a gypsy circus fraud. Soooo many collections have featured a peplum. I get that if enough designers show the same thing then you’ve got a trend and then the magazines push that trend and then everyone buys peplums. That’s how fashion works but this trend is dead already. Also, the bright, poppy colours and colour blocking. Dead to me. I love colour blocking but there’s too much. I can’t take any more. I think I’m gonna fashion my own colour blocked peplum that I can attach to my clothes like a waist scarf.