22 Mar Spring Trend 2018: Transparency

Once upon a time the line of your underwear was a thing to be disguised, but fast-forward to this spring season and transparency is the hottest trend. Transparency means that undergarments have been on show almost everywhere you look. From the barely-there, wispy dresses to sheer plastic trenches and cardigans.

Fendi Spring 2018

Plastic, traditionally the stuff of grocery bags, water bottles and rain ponchos, is having a real high fashion moment, appearing everywhere from the functional rain coats to futuristic moto jackets and glamorous capes and boots.  In an era where actual transparency, whether in politics or in the ways we present our lives on social media, is increasingly rare, could this trend mean more than initially meets the eye?

         Chanel Spring 2018

Millennials are a generation defined by how much we’re willing to share with everyone. Social media is, more than a way to keep in touch, an exercise in image cultivation. We’re all constantly trying to seem like we have nothing to hide, while actually concealing everything except for the parts of themselves that fit into our personal brand.
Transparent accessories are a consumer-friendly version of the “naked dress” trend that has dominated red carpets by physically flawless women like Rihanna who has convinced us that it is ok to wear White plastic wrapped boots.

Rihanna wearing Jimmy Choo Plastic Strappy Stilettoes