Casual Dresses Spring-Summer 2017

A real woman always tends to look ideal. She believes that she must look good not only in a work or festive environment, but also in everyday life. In this chapter, best friends turn out to be dresses in which a woman can go to the store, at the beach, to a beauty salon or simply for a walk in the park. Modern designers have paid a special attention to casual outfits, offering a huge selection of casual dresses for any event, taste and color.

Shirt-dresses 2017

The shirt-dress is a garment loved by so many people. This sits ideally on women of all ages and varying degrees of complexity. Such dresses also can be of various designs, colors, prints, fabrics, tailoring, which makes them be considered as romantic, feminine and also sober dresses. Whole variety of shirt-dresses was demonstrated by Chalayan, Aquilano, Boss, Banana Republic, Derek Lam, Christopher Raeburn, Versace, Joseph.

Loose fit dresses

The loose fit dress is a true novelty for those who want to look good without major expenditures. In addition, these dresses are considered to be universal because any form of body fit. The loose fit dress is often used by those ladies who want to hide the extra cm. And if it wants the emphasis to be placed on certain body parts, then always wear a belt, both above the hips, and also in the waist area. Best loose fit dresses were included in the collections and fashion shows from The Row, Ulla Johnson, Kaelen, Hellessy, 6397, Ryan Lo, Tome, Talbot Runhof, Roksandič Suno, Alexis Mabille, Maison Rabih Kayrouz.

Asymmetric cut

Asymmetry is a well known and in high demand technique among designers. Asymmetrical cut always makes outfits look special, standing it out from the crowd. Do you want a one shoulder dress see A Detacher, Eudon Choi, Martin Grant, J. JS Lee, Jacquemus, Diesel Black Gold collections. If you like mullet dresses, decorative asymmetric cuts and other “disproportionalities”, we invite you to study the fashion show by Parsons MFA sites, Narciso Rodriguez, Christopher Kane, Antonio Berardi.

Lingerie style dresses

Nightdresses and seductive negligees never cease to conquer the hearts of males. That is why, some modern brands have decided to bring it in casual fashion. For this reason, boldly fashionistas can buy dresses that are also well loved night wardrobe items. And not just to buy them, but also to wear in everyday life. Here we list the following: velvet mini designs decorated with seductive lace, midi options, and floor length shirtdresses. All the diversity of lingerie style casual dresses can be seen at Celine, Maiyet, Givenchy, Katie Gallagher, Rag and Bone, Chloe, Narciso Rodriguez, Balenciaga, Alexander Wang, Calvin Klein Collection.

Best casual dresses with frills and ruffles

Frills and all kinds of ruffles are an indispensable element of modern casual outfits. And if previously those methods of fabric decoration could be seen only on evening attires, then now they can be seen almost everywhere. Designers recommend wearing layered dresses not only on the beach, on shopping, but also in the process of active rest (Roberto Cavalli, Alexander McQueen, No.21, Ashish, Francesco Scognamiglio, Jason Wu, Mary Katrantzou, Erdem).

Strapless dresses

It is no secret that the 2017 spring-summer season will give us a lot of warm, even hot days. To protect fashionistas from overheating, designers recommend them to wear dresses as possible open. To this end, they opted for different cuts. In addition, much of the brands recommend us to wear sundresses and dresses with thin, barely visible straps, which leaves the impression that the dress just hangs in the air (Prabal Gurung, Salvatore Ferragamo, Milly, Mara Hoffman, Mother of Pearl, Ellery, J Crew, Joseph, Boss, Chloe, Andrew Gn, Etro, Courreges).

Casual dresses over pants

Dresses and tunics, worn over trousers, jeans, leggings and tights are another well known trend of the new warm season, as evidenced by new lines of APC, Kaelen, A Detacher, Christopher Raeburn, Julien David, Chanel, Talbot Runhof, Marni, Thomas Tait, Suno, Koch, Creatures of the Wind, Arthur Arbesser, Creatures of Comfort. You can match with straight cut tunics with jeans, shirtdresses with flared pants, long chiffon dresses with classic pants – i.e. exactly as you wish. There are no limits in this respect. What matters is fashionista’s comfort and practicality.

Fabrics

Speaking about the versatility of modern fashion, it is impossible not to mention its loyalty towards the actual fabrics. In world fashion shows were presented virtually all existing fabrics. However, in all diversity were observed and leaders. The first place judging by the popularity and originality is occupied by mesh which recommend us to use Anna Sui, Balmain, Stella McCartney, Sibling, Simone Rocha, Sophie Theallet, Tommy Hilfiger, Akris, Alexander McQueen, Dolce and Gabbana and many other brands. The mesh was presented in different sizes and colors. Here we see black, blue, green, orange, white, multi-colored, yellow mesh and dresses that recall the fishing net.

Valentino, Vionnet, Rochas, Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini, Blumarine, Arthur Arbesser, Alberta Ferretti, Balenciaga, Akris, Babyghost, Sharon Wauchob, Tracy Reese did not go too far from colleagues recommending to wear absolutely transparent dresses made of lace and chiffon, under which often there was no underwear.

A great popularity has also knitted fabrics, both manually and mechanically. This trend will definitely appeal to those who love this hobby, because they can be the ones that create their own outfits. Such knitted dresses designs can be seen in collections Issa, Jonathan Simkhai, Tommy Hilfiger, Veronique Leroy, Alexander Wang, Alexis Mabille, Betsey Johnson, Moschino.

The leather also got very close to the pedestal of fashion. In fashion shows could be seen both combined dresses (leather used on only some portions of the article), as well as outfits made entirely of leather. Most designers opted for colored leather (Au Jour Le Jour, Versace, Celine, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Trussardi). The classic black leather being also present in clothing lines coming from Mugler, Saint Laurent.

A great popularity has also the use in a dress cut of simultaneously multiple fabrics (Bottega Veneta, Antonio Marras, ADEAM,Marni, Simone Rocha).

Among the described fabrics, often could be seen denim, fur, velvet, linen, knit fabrics and even cellophane and plastic (Assembly, Acne Studios, Tory Burch, Sibling, Paul Smith, Altuzarra, Balenciaga, Chloe, Marques Almeida, Chanel).

Colors

We were also very impressed by the variety of colors, especially the options of colorful dresses including green dresses (Altuzarra, Maison Rabih Kayrouz, Burberry Prorsum, Arthur Arbesser), passionate red at (Giambi, Fendi, Lemaire, Adam Selman, Hermes Alexis Mabille, blue Akris, Alberta Ferretti, Altuzarra, Hermes), golden yellow (Tome, Jonathan Saunders), and even acid shades (Lisa Perry).

Do not think that designers were limited only to bright shades. If you don’t like vivid colors, draw attention to pastel shades that are presented by Dion Lee, Luisa Beccaria, Boss, Emilia Wickstead, Bottega Veneta, Alberta Ferretti, Iceberg.

A special popularity have also the combination of colors, as well as ombre technique (Altuzarra, Christopher Kane, Chloe etc.)

Prints

The main theme of the spring-summer 2017 season will become geometry, namely stripes. Attires with marine print are back again in fashion. It can be seen in the collections of House of Holland, Dolce and Gabbana, J.Crew, Giulietta. In addition, highly popular will be also other geometrical lines – vertical, horizontal, intersecting lines, zig zag, bright, thick and thin. A huge choice of clothing with geometric printes proposed Max Mara, Jonathan Saunders, Missoni, Salvatore Ferragamo, Stella McCartney, Milly, Maison Rabih Kayrouz, J. JS Lee, Isa Arfen, Apart apiece. They could be seen other geometric shapes such as squares, circles and diamonds (Wes Gordon, Victoria Beckham, Acne Studios, Valentino).

Besides geometric prints, in great demand will be also other images on fabric. For example, Dolce and Gabbana, Antonio Marras, Jill Stuart, Adam Selman, Luisa Beccaria embellished their dresses with flowers, Mara Hoffman and Au Jour Le Jour- images of clouds, Moschino and Jeremy Scott have applied to the cloth funny faces and road signs while in Sonia Rykiel and Roberto Cavalli lines can be seen the animal print and the military theme.

This is how the casual fashion proved to be in spring-summer 2017 season. Fashionistas will again find it difficult to choose the right dress because the caring hands and wonderful creation of designers have proposed an impressive variety of casual dresses designs.