Pink Rock Candy – Top fashion trends, news and shopping of 2010

New York Fashion Week is in full swing, and yet again, I’m swamped and barely have time to look at runway pictures, much less have time to digest the trends I’ve been seeing. However, no matter how busy I get, I always make time to look at the Diane von Furstenberg collection, and this season is no different.

DVF’s Spring/Summer 2010 collection is the perfect continuation to the Nomad story she was telling with her Fall/Winter 2009-2010 collection— you know the one where all of the pieces are “like old friends”? Not to diminish my friends, but they are nothing like clothes, much less DVF clothes, but I digress.

The S/S ’10 collection was draped and layered similarly to the Nomad collection, but it looks almost as if the Nomads stopped by Egypt while Cleopatra was in power and bedding whomever was ruling Rome at the time— Gaius Julius Caesar, Mark Antony— I don’t blame her.

They change their layers to lighter more diaphanous fabrics, and they put on gladiator sandals. The patterned, in primarily muted colors, didn’t overwhelm the plethora of hippie style dresses, but to add a bit of color all the models were adorned by large multi-colored woven bangles, stacked high on the forearm.

I could probably wax poetic about each and every piece, but in truth, my favorite thing about the collection is the hair. The crimpiness just screams summer without looking like the models just walked out of the eighties, and the crown of leaves is definitely a statement piece anyone can do no matter the hair cut, texture, or length. I’m thinking leaves are the new feathers, but I will probably do some mixture of the two because the little girl in me still wants to be Pocahontas.

p.s. I think I’m obsessed with the coin-covered shift dress Arlenis is wearing below.