You know how (most) people hate celebrating the Christmas season before Thanksgiving? "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" was the first song of the Christmas season I heard the Monday prior Thanksgiving
– six weeks before Christmas Eve. I listened to the perfect, starting-song in its entirety, and then promptly switched from the station known for extending the Christmas season well past any reasonable time span to another claiming to be a "mix," rotating of the top-20s from any of the past five years.
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| Zac Posen RTW SS13 |
Well, fashion doesn't follow the average person's resistance to celebrating too soon. Nope; you might be buying sweaters today, and next week, the
Vogue you're reading at the airport on your way to grandma's house is telling you that while children dream of sugarplum fairies, you should be thinking of how to work short-shorts into your office attire. You may even sympathize with the poor models whose bare legs are stretched out on beach chairs on some urban rooftop in New York, who appear to be languidly sunning themselves but are in all actuality freezing and praying that the incoming cloud doesn't block their only source for warmth.
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| Zac Posen RTW SS13 |
But I digress. To keep up in fashion, without shopping yourself bankrupt, you have to consider the upcoming trends and what's on the way out (read: slouchy, flat boots). Harper's Bazaar is pretty good at giving it to you straight, if you don't have time to muse over the pondering of an editor you hope to never meet in public.
Thankfully, the fashion gods (Karl, Zac, Diane
– this is starting to sound like a real, Mt. Olympus-themed editorial spread) have agreed that the peplum trend should continue (and fringe needs to go). Figure-flattering, varietal; the peplum is one of my favorite recurrences in fashion (heavy,
stone-laden jewelry is a close second).
And,
Zac Posen – whom I imagine as Hermes
– has confirmed it will live on for at least SS13, but not as you imagine it. While you may be currently wearing a velvet, jersey or even wool peplum, he has incorporated a corset and caged organza and layered silk.
Below are some of my favorite looks from his SS13 Ready-to-Wear show at New York Fashion Week.
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| Zac Posen RTW SS13, No. 32 |
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| Zac Posen RTW SS13, No. 37 |
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| Zac Posen RTW SS13, No. 19 |
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| Zac Posen RTW SS13, No. 26 |
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| Zac Posen RTW SS13, No. 22 |
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| Zac Posen RTW SS13, No. 10 |
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| Zac Posen RTW SS13, finale, No. 38 |
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Zac Posen with Naomi Campbell
and Coco Rocha |
