Arbiter Elegantiae: Spring 2011 Favourites

30.3.11

Spring 2011 Favourites

I have now covered about all the Spring 2011 trends I plan to, and will soon be moving on to Fashion Forecasts for the Fall 2011 season. However, before I do I wanted to do a post on my favourite Spring looks. Not all of them fell into a particular trend, but they all spoke to me, whether it was through a well-chosen colour palette, graceful lines, or general ingenuity in their design. So without further adieu, these were - in my opinion - the best of Spring. (Photos from www.style.com)

3.1 Phillip Lim

Badgley Mischka

Burberry Prorsum

Carolina Herrera

Christian Siriano

Derek Lam

DKNY

Dries van Noten

Giorgio Armani

Gucci

Jason Wu

Jean Paul Gaultier. I feel this probably needs a little more of an explanation. I love the inclusion of The Gossip's Beth Ditto because it felt like such a giant "fuck you" to people like Karl Lagerfeld who are so against using healthier-size models (not to say that Beth Ditto is exactly "healthy"). The celebration of all forms as beautiful is a big leap forward that will hopefully lead to less stress upon women to be unrealistically thin in the future.