This spring all in black: that’s why (in our opinion) fashion is going through its most “dark” season

The fact is that after an autumn-winter season dominated by the Gothic, the cinema and on the catwalks, everything we expected from the spring wardrobe except that it continued to dress (and see) black.

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And, on the other hand, the beauty of fashion is precisely this: proceeding forward, jumping the obvious obstacles, the easily predictable, pushing to overcome limits that ourselves in the end we build, inviting, instead, to break the patterns. Thus, the days full of light came seasoned by that optimism that accompanies this transition season with a mild climate, We trivially supposed to colorif not to the cocciante “all walls, houses, alleys and buildings”, at least Our wardrobe of vitamin colors ringing or sweet pastel shades. But the twist is that the light at the bottom of the winter tunnel, this time, does not seem to have been turned on, despite the sun begins – even if intermittently – to do its duty, illuminating and heating pleasantly from morning to late afternoon. More or less (because if we look out the window in these hours …).

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But the trend – that is, everything we see by looking around and shaking the social networks – decrees that The darkness continues to wrap us. If we have not yet come out to see the stars again, What a black it is, but cool. Wear a Mise Total Black, After all, it is chic. I realize that this is not a novelty in style since 1957. And, writing it, I will be obvious. However, I think it is worth repeating it to go on in the speech.

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Mirror of the moods of society, Black ink imperate this spring and could be interpreted as One response to current global uncertainties. Instability politicsi conflicts in progress and the growing inequality economic They intensified the desire for nostalgia and evasion.

The dark, in its meaning romanceoffers a unique mix of comfort and rebellionwith its opulent historical elements contrasted by modern audacity. This juxtaposition resonates in today’s climate, where luxury and excess often symbolize both aspiration and criticism.

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Maison like Dior and Alexander McQueen expertly balance the aspects of decadence, presenting a modern aristocratic aesthetic that comments on the disparity of wealth, between fishing networks, heavy accessories and worn fabrics that rise as symbols of self expression and resistance.

But this Renaissance of black in spring Is it simply the response of fashion currently or reflects something deeper? There are no longer, let alone, the (whole) seasons, on the catwalk, who have long since disappeared, as well as the genres. Now it’s up to the colors. Fashion is therefore made colorless: «When I find a darker color, I will wear it. But until then, I will dress in black, “he said Coco Chanel Speaking more than a color, of a style manifesto.

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Lady Gaga al Coachella. Photo Getty.

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Embraced today by celebrationever more black than that, the color/non -color breaks down the preconception which, from end to foot, is preferably portable in winter. While, for example, Lady Gaga crosses his Black waseven performing in corpse wedding dresses during the recent performance at Coachella, even Ariana Grande appeared a few weeks ago in a dark look, abandoning the 50 shades of rose worn for months to promote Wicked. Who knows if the unusual dark look does not want to hide an Easter Egg, that is, he wanted to be an omen of dark times for his character in the film, the good witch of the North Glinda.

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Ariana Grande. Photo Getty.

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To abandon the vitamin colors that usually shows off and loves (so much so that Pantone dedicated a yellow nuance), also Drew Barrymore, present at an event in long dress Dark strapline signed by Carolina Herrera.

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Drew Barrymore. Photo Getty.

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Also in Italy the Gothic in spring conquers the most stylish stars, such as Elodie that appears in a dark lady version on the album cover You love me you hate me out of May 2nd.

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In short, black is the new black. But he comes out of his comfort zone Seasonal probably, however, not to throw ourselves in the darkness. The lucifer of the style palette, moreover, who is others if not a carrier of (new) light? The perspectives change. And the stars, perhaps, must no longer wait to look at them, but become stars of ourselves, knock on our lifestyles. Filling the black wardrobe (also) in spring will it serve not to miss its meaning?


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