Trendspotting: Spring Fashion 2010

This past Monday was a rainy, miserable day of a day here in NY.  So of course with tons of busy work needing to get done, I ended up spending most of the morning perusing images of Spring 2010 fashion week – as a way to avoid doing it.

After all, what are rainy Monday mornings for anyway?

I noted a few trends- right off the bat that I like.

Here are the first 5.

I have always loved Tomato Red. I used to call it “Folk Art Red” because it reminds me of that reddish-orange that you see  often times combined with deep blues, greens and muddy neutrals in rustic art and crafts.  It’s a jolt of a color!

There will be plenty of red dresses in designer’s collections come spring.  I think the boldness of the color makes it more feminine than the deeper “powerhouse” reds of seasons before.

Awesome for a bathing suit (like this one from Badgley Mischka) or as the perfect beauty accessory.  The lips at Prada (as seen above) and Gucci were outrageously intense.  My favorite way it was used on the runway: a simple red (extra long) barrette that appeared at 3.1 Phillip Lim on many of his models- so simple, so unexpected, so chic!!!!

I don’t know- what do you call this color brown?  Sable, Cognac, British Khaki?  Whatever you choose to call it, it’s fabulous for leather this Spring- I am bowing down before that rich Alexander Wang coat (I suppose so rich, the model could not afford a shirt to go along with it?).

The color is extra exciting when paired with greens, especially powder soft Sea-Green (Burberry), deep Kelly Green (Dries Van Noten) and spring-y Chartreuse Green(Rochas). So Fresh!

Cross my heart, my ankles and my shoulders- and hope I get to own anything that is draped with a cross over.  It’s one of my favorite silhouettes of the season. Taken a bit to the extreme at Blouson (buckle straps) and with some clever styling (ribbons up the legs) at Chanel, but super easy and breezy everywhere else. Very flattering for all- a plus.

Oooh, this is my favorite motif.  Heavy black, chunky lines and piping.  We know verticals are slimming!!! So they are our friends.  Love the piped edges that were also being shown on blouses and dresses throughout many collections, really cute.

The  modern spectators by Dries Van Noten, with just that right amount of chunky color, are my dream shoes for Spring- check out the bright green heel….oh, if only!!!

Have a been looking at my computer too long?  Yikes, I feel as if I have.  I do though, have to admit my favorite prints are the ones that look like you’re seeing them with tired screen eyes.  Diane Von Furstenberg’s itty bitty flower prints seem to come in and out of focus, Zac Posen’s looks like bindi dots from a print out and the redo of ikat as if computer generated- as seen at Gucci and Carolina Herrera is a fun twist on the traditional ethnic print (truly ancient/modern).

Gucci went so far as to project pixel like patterns directly on the runway- they get extra points for creativity and helping me prove my point. Grazi for that Gucci!!!

Okay, now I do have to get some actual work done.  Will be back with more trends as I spot them! Ciao.

All image from Elle.com, except image of Blouson taken from Refinery 29.com