Fashion Show Trends Spring-Summer 2022
Everything you need to see from the Spring-Summer 2022 collections, from New York to London, Milan and Paris. Let’s have a look at the biggest moments from the shows.
The concept of a traditional fashion week has not existed for the last 18 months and the past three fashion seasons due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and social restrictions imposed. Many designers have not been able to host in-face catwalk shows. Thus, they had to find other ways to show their collections to the public, turning their presentations into digital formats. The problem was that the concept was some kind of “forgoing” the concept altogether. However, it is believed that more designers and fashion houses will be able to unveil their collections in an in-person show from now on. Moreover, it is also believed that a loosening of restrictions in the four major fashion capitals will allow fashion week to take place in a physical setting, where plenty of designers are going to return to the runway for the first time since March 2020.
Although schedules are not still back to “normal”, we could have the opportunity to see some fashion shows. In September, specifically in New York, there was the Met Gala event. Then, it was headed to London, Milan and Paris.
Below, we round up every major runway show moment you need to see from New York, London, Milan and Paris as worldwide designers present their Spring/Summer 2022 collections.
Alexander McQueen
Creative Director, Sarah Burton, presented her Spring/Summer 2022 collection in the East End of London, which was inspired by the spectacular rolling skies that she and the McQueen team see from the studio every day. “There’s that sense that the sky is ever-changing – this constant change that’s uncontrollable. Some days it can be kind of very calm, a very beautiful dappled sky. And then this kind of ferocious sky,” Sarah observed. “And I’ve been thinking about what we’ve all been through: this constant feeling that you don’t know what the next day is going to be. And how you have to just face it with bravery. The fact is, we’re not in control of the situation. Nature is more powerful than us. Sun, rain, storm – whatever comes, you have to just keep going.” The British weather and feeling themes played as important aspects depicted throughout the collection as if on cue.
“I’m interested in immersing myself in the environment which we live and work in London, and in the elements as we experience them each day,” She continued.
Gucci
Creative Director Alessandro Michele presented his Spring/Summer 2022 collection titled “Nine Letters Dripping With Desire”. Hollywood was the ultimate destination for the designer, the child inside him and Los Angeles as the City of Angels to unleash his Gucci demigods for the collection.
As the models parade down the Boulevard, gowns opulent enough for red carpets, suits ready to be danced in and lingerie ready to be torn-off created a collection made for the dreamer. It was a cocktail of desire, confidence and waves of extravagant materials.
Miu Miu
Creative Director Miuccia Prada unveiled his Spring/Summer 2022 collection. It was all about showing skin and subverting traditionally corporate clothes.
The collection was a reaction to and reflection of reality, an economy, a freshness found in iterations of eternal, universal garments. Moreover, the foundations are classic – trousers, sweaters, shirts, blazers, suits and sheath dresses, absolute archetypes of everyday dresses.
Bottega Veneta
Creative Director Daniel Lee showed off his Spring/Summer 2022 collection runway show, which took place in the Motor City’s Michigan Theater, an opulent place built in the 1920s. The Director says that he loves Detroit because it reminds him of his hometown of Leeds. “I’m obsessed with Detroit,” Lee said after the show.
The day’s event included a culture tour that made stops at the mid-century Hawkins Ferry House in Grosse Pointe; the world’s first and only techno museum, Exhibition 3000; and the studio of furniture designer Chris Schanck.
