Skirts or Summer 2008

A new fashionable season came to us with this summer. Boutiques are replenished with spring-and-summer collections, womanly and romantic, glamour and strict. And all of us know, how much we desire new things to blossom during warm days. To understand tendencies of a new season and variety of styles, we offer you photos from fashion shows, illustrating latest trends. Let’s reflect over skirts that will enter in our wardrobe best of all.

Here are their basic features:

1. Waist-line skirt

It is an indispensable attribute of today’s fashion. Bell-bottomed skirts passed into oblivion and forced us tightening belts.

Besides, in a new season a belt became an indispensable ally of both evening dresses and casual dresses, and even skirts with a shirt are tightened by belts, parading waist. It is necessary to mean that a narrow skirt with a short waist – clothes for a harmonous figure, but if a skirt has loose cut, it can hide some defects of a figure. For example – to distract attention from flat buttocks. A high waistline extends feet visually, and tightened thong adds feminity to unduly thin figure.

ANNA SUI, A. McQueen, GUCCI collections

2. Rita Hayworth

The image of this Hollywood star of the last century inspired many designers preparing for a new season’s. An extended silhouette, smooth lines outlining a figure flatterly, slender waist. All this creates an image of a film star – seductive and simultaneously constrained, – and adds retrocharm in modern things.

It suits figures, not too harmonous, smoothing convex stomach or grown plump hips slightly. Choose womanly, graceful footwear to such image, with a heel or small platform, as in forties.

BOTTEGA VENETTA, Donna Karan, Badgley Mischka collections

3. Maxiskirt

This is fine invention of mankind!

After all, a long skirt has lots of advantages: such skirt gives sensation of freedom, and in a combination to footwear on a flat sole – ease and comfort. It hides hips and feet far from a desirable ideal, and with correctly picked up top levels superfluous centimetres on a waist.

However, it does not suit owners of low height, a tiny figure seems overloaded in loose attires.

In a new season maxiskirts are sewed from light streaming fabrics and combined to sandals on a flat sole.

D&G, Salvatore Ferragamo, Gianfranco Ferrе collections

4. Volume

Pleated skirts and skirts with a cascade of frills are still actual in a new season. However, a skirt-tulip and a skirt-cylinder, also do not give ground. Volume skirts are good in a combination with laconic fitting top, high-heel peeps or sharp-nosed pumps.

Volume created by these models can increase proportions of hips visually, having balanced excessively wide shoulders.

RODARTE, Luella, Giles collections