Top Trend: Lace

Its always hard to transition from relaxed summer vacation outfits back to work week attire. Especially when Mother Nature keeps throwing weather curve balls. One day its sweltering, the next its cool…not to mention summer showers thrown in just to mess with your sartorial plans. But if there is fabric that seems to fare well in terms of transitioning, its lace.

Lace is one of those materials that has never really gone out of style since the Victorian age. You might see more or less of it depending on the current moods of fashion but lace pieces have a timelessness that, once you find the lace garment you have always been looking for, tend to end up being a faithful wardrobe companion for years.  Its an ethereal fabric that is unquestionably feminine but it can also be rather feisty.  Case in point: the bubble gum pink lace trousers from Givenchy.

Givenchy

Fendi

Nina Ricci

Pink was a favored shad for lace in many of the Pre-Fall 2017 collections this season. Fendi is clearly skilled at much more that just designing eye popping furs. The perfect example being how the house used some stiff lace to create a structural collar on a pink lace dress, and then vamped it up by finishing the look with black lace tights. While over at Nina Ricci designer Guillaume Henry came up with a second skin long sleeve lace top that had a textural transparency that was both a bit audacious and oozed Parisian chic.

Dior

Stella McCartney

Public School

Other strong lace alternatives came from Dior, where designer Maria Grazia Chiuri is making lace one of her keystone fabrics since she was name the iconic brand’s new creative director. As you might expect, Erdem went with a more buttoned up and retro slant on lace and Stella McCartney turned up the heat on her lace by dying it a rich red hue. Then over at Chloe, in one of her final collections for the house before leaving it to join Givenchy, designer Claire Waight Keller produced another line up of 70s inspired boho lace beauties. And you have just got to love the way Public School made lace look both urban and bad ass.

With these pre-fall lace options its going to be hard not to fall in love with this romantic evergreen and versatile fabric.

Jessica Michault

Jessica Michault is the Senior Vice President of industry relations at GPS Radar by Launchmetrics. She is also the editor-at-large for ODDA magazine and contributes to publications like the New York Times, the Business of Fashion, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Mixte magazine.