Got a sneaky peek at the new Zara lookbook which is filled with amost amazing fashion forward pieces. I'm becoming quite impressed with Zara, I've previously dismissed them as the layout of their stores drives me insane. I mean, I get flustered and leave almost the minute I enter. I find them quite dark as well. Not All Saints dark, but still badly lit. However, the website is minus the dark bits and is well laid out, so I find myself drawn back every now and again for a gander!
It has all the trends ticked :Color pop
patterned trousers
snakeskin
side slit in skirts (next season)
the maxi dress
pencil skirt (next season)
With a good few basics scattered in for good measure, like white shirts shown with metallic skirts. I wouldn't normally piece metallics with a white shirt like that, but it really works. This is what I love about lookbooks - you get to see how the professional stylist would work a piece. I've gained so many ideas this way!
I really feel with this collection of looks, if I told you they were designer, you'd believe me! I mean that stone buttonless cardigan is straight out of Chloe and the red pencil skirt could be Marc Jacobs for next season, but in a very now Jil Sander color pop way!
My pick of the collection has to be the metallic skirt. Okay so it's not practical! But I love the non practicality of it - given that fashion has been screaming about affordable recycling of clothes, its the pure useless wanton destruction of a skirt which has me handing over my credit numbers, I mean, I've owned metallic fabrics before - who can forget the trend back in 2006/7 for metallic wet look leggings. (Still worn by the indie kids occasionally and sold on market stalls) I can safetly say having worn a gold pair to death that they don't survive long term, the metallic fades to a strange brown/black color which looks oddly enough as if you have a rusty bum. I love the arty feel to wearing a metallic skirt/trouser/jacket with all black. Something very 60's about it! But surviving in a deep recession filled pit for last two years - doesn't it feel good to want something purely for the hell of impracticality?
The other great thing about Zara and speaking of recession fashion buying is the prices. A lot of high street stores have acknowledged the drop in footfall (that's customers through the door of store) and have lowered their prices to match what we can afford. Meaning that yes, River Island, Zara and H&M and to a lesser extent, Oasis are all cheaper now then they have been. But stores such as Topshop and Urban Outfitters are still expensive. Topshop more then ever actually. But Zara have featured quite a bit on the fashionable and under fifty section of this blog.. (where I chase down a fashionable item for under fifty euro) They have recently reduced a great deal of their items having released a collection of dresses for forty euro - which in turn saw great success.
So I guess it's time to keep trying the stores really. I sadly have no prices or dates for the release of these items, but it's no hardship to keep an eye on the stores or indeed the website!
This is my other pick of the collection, the blue blazer, again for the same practical reasons as before. I find that Ireland as a fashionable nation can be a little bit color-phobic. Preferring to spend time in browns, blacks and greys - I am as guilty as the next person for that one though! I think we could all do with giving the color pop trend a go! Since our high streets are filled with great pieces. The best way to do it is to break in the trend easily, update an accessory or two before going full force, just remember that color pop is a full time position and is not for the faint of heart - it will get you noticed.
One final note : How Kate Moss at a festival is that kimono?
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