Sifting through spring and summer 2015 fashions, it would still be the ’60s-’70s look. This is understandable since the world is dashing half past the second decade of the new century.
When a twentysomething model described the fully beaded dress she wore in the Jason Wu Spring Summer 2015 show at New York Fashion Week, she gushed, “It’s like my grandmother’s treasured clothes. I love her closet and she lets me wear it on special occasions.” So it is the flower children of today who prize the innocence of the Hippie Era more than 40 years ago, a time when color was in full bloom.
Psychedelia were printed in every form and font. It was the era of A-line dresses, mini skirts, baby doll dresses, the sexual revolution and the birth control pill.
The history of fashion is a “Bohemian Rhapsody” of loops, patterns and silhouettes being recalled for a new generation of consumers. It may be a bumper crop of nostalgic variations on a played-out theme. Here are the seven hottest trends to look cool next summer.