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What inspired trend best suits a season based wholly on travel and leisure?
Designers and artists alike gave an enthusiastic nod to the hot and humid tropics
using bold blooms and leafy, botanical prints on both ready-to-wear and accessories.
Resort looks on the spring/summer 2016 runway introduced vibrant doses of color
while remembering to give customers a tempting tease of island ambiance.
The Torrid Tropics spring/summer 2016 collection takes inspiration from the
culture and scenery of the Caribbean with tropical bursts of summer. Exotic
rainforest vegetation and jungle foliage are emphasized with saturated accents
against crisp, neutralized backgrounds for a luminous finish. Influenced by the
spring/summer 2016 collections of Anna Sui, Ellie Saab, Osklen, and Ese
Azenabor. Artists alike, including Emma Doyen and Eugene Seguy reinterpret this
seasonal trend to dramatic limits with intensely colored updates.
Mass-market brands Anthropologie and Puma modernize the tropical leaf
print and define it in footwear. Tropical prints take on patterning and clashing
colors to resemble the dense jungle landscape. Palm fronds are renewed while
banana-leaf prints with layers of foliage are featured in unexpected color
combinations. Patterns archaic of the hot and humid landscape are introduced
with details attributing to illustrative leaves and exotic fruits for conversational
repeats. The overall high-summer look is styled with lush, brilliantly colored prints
to mirror the intensity of the bewildering habitat.
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Street stylers and trendsetters are setting the competitive bar high by mixing
bold and daring tropical prints with other clashing prints. Vegetation, flora and fauna,
and botanical prints implode an explosion of all your senses while throwing your sight
into an illusionary ride. The leisure of it all oozes sophistication and a bit of a festive
vibe that is essentially appropriate for streetwear.
Bloggers including Aimee Song and Irene Kim have taken this tropical print
trend and made it entirely their own by accessorizing with pieces that intrigue and that
essentially complement their unique styles. But whether a blogger or an aspiring
trendsetter, this island inspired print is both functional and easy to wear. Imprinted on
shoes, skirts, bombers, and dresses, this exotic pattern is sure to make heads turn
while adding some spontaneous fun. And to think, avid lovers of the much-loved floral
trend, the tropical print trend falls in a similar category but with an exotic edge.
So, what’s your take on this “hot” trend?
This blog article was brought to you by Carolyn ‘CJ’ Johnson. Born and bred in
Southern California, she currently resides in New York City. CJ is a Fabric Styling
student at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
For more information, she can reached at [email protected]
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