For some people, sleep isn’t just difficult – it’s anxiety-inducing Mission Impossible. And if you’re like me, you better be ready for the rare moment when your work and social calendars roughly correspond with your circadian rhythms. Fortunately, SS12 trends have been characteristically sleepy, providing the appropriate fabrications for when the mind calls for an under-the-desk rest or 2am disco-nap.
Akris
Camilla and Marc
Kenzo
Post by Amanda LaMela
You don’t have to apologize for being a tease, Spring. I hardly even noticed you stopped by. Besides, you’ve told me time and time again that you’re “not that type of season.”
You called? Oh, I haven’t been checking my phone. So sorry if I come off a little breezy...
It’s okay if you decide not to hang around, Spring. Just don’t be surprised if I skip you completely for a newer, hotter season. Until then, I wear the pants.
10 Crosby Derek Lam
Yves Saint Laurent
Alice + Olivia
Akris
Kenzo
Costume National
Post by Amanda LaMela
Trends for 2012 are being interpreted in a light that is harrowingly optimistic. Forecasters are relentlessly and stubbornly translating bright palettes, bold accessories, and daring silhouettes as signs for better times to come. But dare I suggest that this movement is more of an emotional reaction – a desire to amplify our positivity and mask apprehension?
Burak Uyan’s fresh geometric platforms in Paxil pink could indicate sanguinity, but perhaps its promising power is the more realistic desire. A clutch by Diane von Furstenberg in Blue Curacao might be more liquid courage than organic audacity and the double-zip Akris jumper in an addicting Paris green grabs us with its capacity to camouflage anxiety.
Are we thrilled? Or have we become comfortably numb?
Burak Uyan
Diane von Furstenberg
Akris
Post by Amanda LaMela
District L is Amanda LaMela & Nicolas Sera-Leyva
