About a month ago, I began researching a post on Zara’s spring offering; I had perused the website and immediately saw their appropriation of some key S/S 2009 collections (McCartney, Balmain, Blumarine, Sander) and trends (bondage shoes, oversized blazers, draping).
Unfortunately, as you know, my hard drive crapped out, and I lost all of the images I had been collecting for the post. The other day I took down the 50 or so photos I had pinned onto a bulletin board to organize my head around what I would write; I figured it was too late anyhow.
Scooped!
Tatiana over at Jezebel wrote a piece yesterday on the very same thing; so I decided to pull together a more diluted version of what I was working on a few weeks back. I could use a good dose of fashion, anyhow.
When looking through Zara’s catalog, my first thought was “hello Jil Sander!” Crisp, tailored blazers paired with pants-bordering-on-leggings and bondage shoes was a key look on the Sander runway (one of WWD’s and my favorite S/S collections).
Pleated, high-waisted and gathered trousers were all over the runways (Chloé, Tibi, Helmut Lang, to name a few) and Zara picked up on this trend as well. They appropriated the pajama trend, which was seen at Dolce & Gabbana and YSL, with a layered tie-front jacket.
McCartney oozed from this look, with an oversized blazer layered over a mini dress. The shoes are somewhat reminiscent of the (awful) YSL cage shoes, which I still fail to understand.
When I saw this dress I immediately thought of the cerulean mini dress from the Blumarine runway, and the jacket is so Lang.
Deep purple was a key color from the season, and Zara picked up on this and the Grecian trend with this mini dress. Although, I would love to see ALL designers veer away from the bubble hems. They are flattering on no one.
In their inspiration illustrations, we see that Zara is looking to create their version of the uber-popular Balmain amplified shoulder blazer.
Again, I think we’ll see a lot of trickle down around the draping that saturated the runways. Lots of billowing skirts, cowl draping and loose, pleated trousers, with retailers picking up on the Grecian evening-wear trend and adapting it for day.
When I saw this illustration, I was immediately taken to the awesome tiered shift from the Viktor & Rolf collection. The color palette seems to be inspired by Rodarte and Dries Van Doten.
All Photographs: Zara & Style.com
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Lucie, you’re awesome! Thanks for pointing this out. It’s so hard to remember everything, and I only had a few hours. This is great :-)
I think those weird lacy shoes are inspired by these ann demeulemeesters: http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t59/seaofshoes/woodwood2.jpg
I actually hate these shoes even more than the ysls… Thanks for making this post, i love figuring out where high street stores’ “inspiration” comes from, it’s like a memory game.