It goes up, down, up the hem never stabilizes and fashion continues to play with it by lengthening and shortening it according to the whims of the season.
The length of the midi skirts launched by Dior and Chanel had characterized the 1940s, as well as Mary Quant, in the 1960s, is unquestionably attributed 'the invention' of the miniskirt.
Short, long, midi, longuette, the skirt has made history.
But never like this year, has there been a phenomenon of coexistence: the various measures do not replace each other, but are side by side and alternate continuously, passing with ease from the short by Miu Miu and Prada to the midi by Tom Ford.
He could not remain indifferent - observes
Giuliana Parabiago journalist and wedding planner
in the blog of
SposaItalia, the bridal week in Milan
(1-4 April) - the wedding dress, even if spontaneously devoted to 'to the feet' with a marked tendency to stretch even more in even slightly rounded aftermaths.
And if the alternative was often resolved in the Hamletic covering or leaving the tip of the shoe uncovered, this year too the bride decided to play bravely with the hem and not just with some vintage-style midi dresses or skirts. wheel from the fifties.
The play of lengths is expressed with the change of clothes - if two are foreseen and you often choose them completely different and therefore also with different heights of the hem - or with the same dress that is
midi at the front and with a train on the shoulders
.
Trend masterfully summarized by Carolina Herrera in the recent New York fashion show with a pink tulle dress, almost a tutu, with
multiple skirts fitted one after the other: the first short and then gradually the other midi, maxi, with train, for wearing the measure of all emotions at once.
After a period of total suspension, the calendar of ceremonies started slowly, due to safety regulations and distances.
Couples who had put off for a long time preferred to keep doing it, waiting to be completely free to celebrate.
This spring 2022 is therefore
the real start of a new season
which has already sold out the locations and will engage the sector in an exhausting but happy marathon.
In the meantime, many things have changed.
Companies have understood the importance of social media and digital communication, the value that contents such as traceability and sustainability have, the desire for signs that are increasingly contemporary and close to fashion.
Women make their choice faster, never giving up on the super dress.
According to Assoeventi Confindustria, the turnover of the sector which in 2019 had been 33 billion, in 2020 had suffered a decline of 90%.
The events canceled were 80%
with a consequent loss of around 60 billion.
A boom is expected in 2022 and not only in Italy
.
In the United States, where the sector is worth 300 billion dollars (264.5 million euros) according to the Wedding Industry Report, the number of ceremonies will go from 1.93 million in 2019 to 2.47 in 2022 and 2.24 in 2023. The budget will grow from today's average of $ 22,500 to $ 24,900.
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The 'bridal week' returns to Milan - Lifestyle
With Sì SposaItalia Collezioni, which opens today at fieramilanocity, the 'bridal week' returns to Milan with 170 brands with their proposals for next season and 12 fashion shows.
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The trends from Sì SposaItalia Collezioni
The double identity
The new proposals solve the dilemma of the double dress, of the desire to change the look between the ceremony and the party, interpreting the two moments in a single model.
It is a true double identity: the designers have thought of a dress that is composed and decomposed, to which to add and remove details, add and subtract details, in a modular game.
Nothing predictable, but the 'wow' effect: the showy and important corolla sleeves disappear, the train and the ambia skirt reveal a perfect sheath dress, the rigorous bodice opens into a daring neckline.
A versatility that also allows for subsequent use, projecting a day's dress into an elongated temporal space.
The Neoromantic
The dress, needless to repeat, is inextricably linked to the location that will see it on stage.
And if it is true that more and more special places are sought, out of the ordinary, particular, even the style has lost rigidity, rigor and obvious formality to express a new romanticism, made of lightness, transparencies of variable density, of sophisticated spontaneity.
A less sexy attitude, less stripped down, made of precious fabrics, Italian or French, of small important details.
Something Vintage
Not so much a look at the past with respect to lines and volumes, not so much quotes from costume history, but rather that slightly lived-in air, just enough that can take away the feeling of being too new.
An embroidery, a slightly retro bodice, a lace that belongs to tradition, a hand-made detail.
Clothes that preserve the art of making, craftsmanship, aesthetic archives for the pleasure of a dress that can tell a story and that often belongs to the famous Made in Italy
The extra detail
A strap that marks the waistline complete with a buckle with numbers, a shoulder strap that becomes a shoulder strap, a strip of a different fabric that becomes decoration, it is the details that make the difference with some forays of the logo and the numbers.
New signs, innovative signs that define new proposals, while a great classic cannot go: the bow.
Now almost architectural, giant and important at the end of a sleeve as if it were a capital, now behind blocking a neckline, the bow always seems to cross the seasons.