Fashion is having its artistic moment with designers willing to take to the streets for creative inspiration. Spray paint, a street art staple and a rebel’s tool, has given way to abstract print patterns for the Spring of 2014. After Marc Jacobs glorified vandalism act by carrying out the graffiti artists’ work of rebellion on T-shirts, the trend found a spot with designers who experimented with the print on ready-to-wear. The runways saw Celine laying circular strokes on sporty tunics, Chanel spray painting the seams of an acid-washed leather dress and Vera Wang hitting on a softer note with fluid, feminine lines.
Directing the trend into the chancy category of formal wear was Proenza Schouler, who took an interesting leap by covering slouchy pantsuits in raw paint strokes. The trend, generally seen on casual T-shirts, has been overlooked for its notoriety and rendered on a host of other silhouettes in easy monochromes.
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