The fine line between teeny-bopper and trendsetter...
With the fashion legends Dior, Gucci and Louis Vuitton embracing it and Christopher Kane once again championing it, not on such a blinding and halucenogic scale as in his 2006 debut collection (it was still mastery though, there is nothing this man can do wrong), neon is back on our rails. With the assumption, make that certainty, that it will also be back on our backs when and where do we draw the line or should that be glow stick?
Neon has always presented us with the question of when is enough, enough (unless your 13 and in a hip hop crew, then theres never enough) or when are we just too old to pull it off. It always has been rejoiced in by teens, and ravers alike and at the ripe old age of 29 i shudder at the thought of dressing down, in age of course, I mean when is mutton mutton and when is it trying to dress like a lamb??? So wrinkled brow at the ready I ponder how do us mere mortals pull off the ‘semi-flouro’ trend without looking like an extra from a Nikki Minaj video???
I will gladly concede that this summers neon trend is not necessarily deemed to be worn head to toe by any means and it is assuringly less day-glow than in the summer of 2007. But, calling it a colour block for trends sake is just not up to par in my opinion, not when i haven’t been able to get John Mayers “Neon” out of my head for weeks and I’ve been caught off guard by a flourish of flourescent on possibly more occasions than i care to count.
Perhaps some of us will opt for a flitting flourish of flourescence in a seasonal print a la Mary Katrantzou, or perhaps you’ll choose to transcend teeny-bopperdom by masking it in a veil of femininity with more than a dash of gothic grunge courtesy of Christopher Kane, you could not be accused of aspiring to be a day-glow lamb wearing Marc Jacobs’ elegant feminine and simplistic silhouettes that bring neon into unknown grown-up territory with his sixties inspired collection for Louis Vuitton (that yellow is bang out out of the sixties, think Jefferson Airplane) or perhaps you will choose to ride out the hallucinogenic wave with a few carefully chosen accessories. My guess is this summer (if it ever comes) we’ll all be aglow and i don’t mean with fake tan.
Above images Christopher Kane, Louis Vuitton, Mary Katrantzou and Zara
