Wanna know about all the styles and trends spotted in SS18 fashion weeks? Here’s our part 1 of 2018 fashion trend analysis – designer by designer!
Spring 2018 Fashion Trend Analysis
Alberta Ferretti
- Jumpsuit
- Cape gown, front slit
- Crochet maxi dress, one shoulder
- Asymmetric sweater with hoodie, fringed hemline, sheer nude dress
- Sheer maxi dress
- Layered maxi dress, belted
- Feather mini dress
- Metallic matching set
- Metallic mini dress, embellished
- Text sweater, metallic jacket and shorts
- Metallic trousers, knotted shirt
Alexander Wang
- High waist trousers, crop top, metallic
- Leather mini skirt, overskirt
- Leather top with slit, cropped jacket, extra long sleeves, metallic trousers
- Pantsuit, half sleeved jacket
- Sleeveless jacket
- Cropped leather pants, mixed media pants, button up shirt worn under slip top
- Two tone trousers, one shoulder sweater
- Ripped, boyfriend jeans
- Leather top, lace midi skirt
- One shoulder dress
Alice + Olivia
- Slit gown, one shoulder top, layered crop top
- Floral print, matching set
- Bold leaf motif maxi dress, belted
- Asymmetric jacket, patterned dress
- Pencil skirt with front slit
- Patterned maxi dress, embroidered cropped jeans, text tee shirt, long denim jacket, cold shoulders, floral print top
- Pantsuit, one shoulder mini dress
- Feather skirt
- Maxi skirt, peplum top
- Pleated midi skirt, striped
Altuzarra
- Sheer mesh dress, belted, fur trimmings, slip dress
- Cropped sweater, sheer midi skirt, mesh, belted
- Suede jacket, double breasted, asymmetric skirt
- Fur trimming jacket, asymmetric dress with slit
- Metallic jacket, fur collar
- Leather jacket
- Layered peplum top
- Extra long sleeves, belted jacket
- Metallic dress with slit, fringed hemline, cropped cape
Badgley Mischka
- Dress with pant, knot detail
- Asymmetric maxi dress, floral print
- Belted mini dress, ruffled sleeves
- Button up shirt, skirt with slit, belted
- Floral appliqué dress
- Cocktail dress with feather detail
- Ruffled top gown
- Sheer cape top
- Silver metallic gown, full sleeved
Balmain
- Patent leather jumpsuit with chain link, pockets, button up shirt, cold shoulders
- Sheer coat, graphic print
- Sheer skirt
- Peplum top, ruffled, layered, cropped patent leather pant, puffy shoulder
- Layered hemline, leather skirt with ruffled detail, logo tee shirt
- Shoulder pads, metallic mini dress, graphic print, striped long coat
- Fringed knitted wool skirt, jacket, embellished top
- Patent leather, loose trousers, striped tank top
- Crop top, cold shoulders, fringed hemline trousers
- Metallic, extra long top, fringed shorts
- One sleeved dress, belted
- Pantsuit, matching set, striped, metallic
Carolina Herrera
- One shoulder dress
- Button up shirt, plunging V-neckline, pencil skirt, puffed sleeves
- Striped peplum top
- High waist jeans
- Metallic midi dress
- One sleeved gown
- Belted tulle skirt
Chanel
- Fringed crop top, tweed jacket
- Fringed skirt
- Leather coat
- Fringed sweater, layered skirt
- Sheer maxi dress
- Sheer dress, poofy sleeves
- Asymmetric top and skirt, matching set
- One shoulder top
- Mini skirt with pockets
- Dress with pants, fringes, matching set
Chloé
- Cropped jeans, turtleneck
- Brown leather jacket, layered dress, patterned, art print
- Asymmetric long top
- Button up shirt, extra long sleeves, animal print mini skirt
Christian Siriano
- Crop top with cut outs, cropped trousers, floral motifs, matching set, poofy sleeves, bell sleeves
- One shoulder midi dress, front slit
- One sleeved dress with choker
- Maxi sheer dress with pockets
- Front slit slip dress
- High waist sheer trousers, matching set, long coat, poofy sleeves, crop top
- Appliqué gown
Christopher Kane
- Sheer midi dress, embellished, floral print
- Ruffled dress, asymmetric
- Fringed top, turtleneck, asymmetric skirt, inverted V skirt, ruffles
- Extra long sleeves, feather details, sheer midi dress, knitted sweater dress
- Patent leather cropped jacket, lace details, sheer skirt
- Metallic sweater, cut outs, extra long sleeves
Coach
- Metallic jacket and skirt, graphic print tee shirt, sequin metallic skirt on skirt
- Slip dress worn over sheer tee shirt
- Extra long sweater with pockets
- Trouser with side stripes
- Matching denim set, patchwork skirt
- Patchwork bomber jacket, high waist flared jeans
- Sleeveless metallic jacket, cropped patchwork jeans
Dior
- Metallic tee shirt dress with cut outs
- Graphic print tee shirt dress
- Sheer top, patchwork midi skirt
- Striped sheer maxi dress
- Striped top, text tee shirt, high waist jeans, two tone
- Metallic sequin mini dress
- Patchwork leather jacket, sheer pleated skirt
- Metallic skirt, laser cut
Dolce & Gabbana
- Sheer slip midi dress
- Sheer skirt, double breasted bar jacket, sheer sleeves
- Peplum top, corset
- Pantsuit
- Embellished jacket, half sleeved
- Metallic mini dress
- Asymmetric jacket, embellished
- Embellished mini dress, sheer full sleeved
- Bell sleeves, fish motif A-line midi dress, double jacket
- Shoulder pads, metallic jacket
- Metallic mini dress
Dries Van Noten
- Sheer slip dress, fringes
- Embellished jacket, cropped sleeves, sheer skirt
- Patterned button up shirt, folded hem jeans, embellished collar
- One shoulder sweater
- Extra long sleeves, patterned button up shirt, skirt with pockets
- Patterned pantsuit
- Waist cape, floral print dress
- Embellished midi dress, sheer poncho
- Sheer skirt and top, embellished bomber jacket
Elie Saab
- Belted patterned dress with double slit, slit sleeves
- Fringed skirt, button up shirt
- Snakeskin pattern matching set, half sleeved long coat
- Fringed top, sheer sleeves, mini skirt with slits
- Fringed skirt, text tee shirt, half sleeved jacket
- Monochrome, asymmetric skirt
- Double breasted belted midi dress with slit
- Patchwork leather mini skirt, text tee shirt
- Sheer gown with pockets, belted
- Sheer matching set, cropped trousers
- Kaftan dress
- Sheer jumpsuit, belted
- Sheer bomber jacket
- Embellished gown
- Embellished top with cape
Emporio Armani
- Striped pantsuit, double breasted, loose pants
- Sheer jacket, leather shorts
- Graphic print, extra long tee shirt, patterned pant, cropped trousers
- Graphic print leather jacket
- Graphic art sweater, sheer skirt
- Graphic print dress, bell sleeves, dress on sheer top
- Asymmetric skirt
- Checkered jacket, folded hem trousers, sheer top
- Double breasted jacket
- Long jacket, plaid
- Patterned pant, cropped leather jacket
- Logo tee shirt, metallic trousers
- Sequined jacket, jogger pant, athleisure
- Sheer top, ruffled
- Baggy trousers
- Bell sleeves
- One shoulder top
- One shoulder mini dress
Fendi
- Peplum jacket, matching set, cut outs, oversized flappy collars, men’s inspired fabric
- Sheer top, A-line midi skirt
- Leather pencil skirt, cold shoulders
- Leather coat with cold shoulders, belted
- Logo jacket, leather midi skirt, mixed media, bomber jacket
- Off-the-shoulder jacket, peplum
- Denim dress, cold shoulders
- Poncho, striped mini dress
- One shoulder dress with slit
- Floral print midi dress, belted, attached cropped cape
Giorgio Armani
- Sheer pantsuit
- Floral print coat, cropped trousers
- Graphic print dress, metallic coat
- Graphic art print jacket, metallic skirt
- Sheer button up shirt
- Ruffled belted top paired with pleated mini skirt
- Pleated mini dress
- Floral print mini dress
- Double breasted jacket, floral print
- Graphic print slip dress with pockets
- Patchwork dress with pockets
- Peplum top
- Half sleeved jacket, ruffled mini dress
- Half sleeved metallic tee shirt, cropped trousers, striped
- Floral print jacket, patterned trousers
- One shoulder, pleated mini dress
Givenchy
- One shoulder dress, layered
- Shoulder pads, double breasted, asymmetric skirt
- Matching denim skirt set
- Sleeveless button up shirt, straight cut cropped jeans, front slit
- Exaggerated shoulders, patterned mini dress
- Leather jacket with oversized pockets
- One shoulder layered dress
- Red leather pant with slits, button up shirt, poofy sleeves
- Belted leather coat
- Striped matching set
- Leather mini skirt with pockets, striped sweatshirt, mini skirt with slit
- Sheer top
- Bell sleeves, cut out dress, dress on sheer crop top
- Sheer top gown
- Mini dress with pockets, belted, geometric neckline
- One sleeved mini dress, ruffled
- Asymmetric dress with slashed asymmetric hemline
Gucci
- Shoulder pads, extra long jacket, pencil skirt, button up shirt
- Bell sleeves, metallic dress
- Logo tee shirt, belted
- Cropped flared trousers
- Metallic two tone top, pleated asymmetric skirt
- Patchwork printed leather dress
- Printed skirt, shoulder pads
- Extra long sleeves
- Extra long cardigan
- Matching set, high waist loose trousers, poofy sleeves
- Pantsuit
- Embellished bomber jacket, skirt on skirt
- Metallic cropped jacket with fur sleeves, mixed media
- Velvet trousers, graphic print jacket
- Text bomber jacket, floral print maxi dress
- Athleisure, embellished jacket
- Pleated maxi dress
- One shoulder sheer pleated dress
Hermes
- Double breasted jacket, pantsuit
- High waist trousers, button up shirt, poofy sleeves, loose trousers
- Plaid jacket, asymmetric top
Isabel Marant
- Matching set, cropped trousers, poofy sleeves
- Lace mini dress
- One shoulder ruffled dress
- Leather mini skirt with pockets, poofy sleeves
- Leather pant, cut out top
- Metallic trousers, high waist, slip top
- One sleeved top
- Athleisure
- Off-the-shoulder mini dress
- Poncho top
- One sleeved leather dress
- One shoulder top, studded trousers
Louis Vuitton
- Embroidered asymmetric jacket
- Pantsuit, monochrome, sleeveless coat, belted
- Sleeveless leather dress
- Metallic jacket
- Brocade sleeveless jacket, extra long sleeves, folded hem leather pant
- Extra long sleeves, striped dress, turtleneck
- Metallic trousers
- Metallic dress worn over a striped shirt
- Floral print maxi dress, cold shoulders
- Black maxi dress with double slit
- Graphic print tee shirt worn over a top, poofy sleeves
- Metallic patchwork dress with fringed hemline
- Embellished leather jacket
- Metallic trousers, leather button up shirt
Maison Margiela
- Belted cut out dress
- Fringed mini dress
- Pleated belted coat
- Pleated metallic dress, bell sleeves
- Peplum jacket, sheer skirt
- Metallic jacket, striped tee shirt dress, fringes, sheer
Marc Jacobs
- Pantsuit, extra long sleeves, loose trousers
- Slouchy sweater, button up shirt, turtleneck
- Floral print, one shoulder, belted maxi dress
- Jumpsuit, matching hoodie jacket
- Oversized jacket with zippers, floral trousers, matching set, cropped
- Sheer top, floral print trousers
- Plaid matching set
- Half sleeved coat, floral appliqué, loose trousers
- One sleeved dress with pants
- Floral appliqué, belted gown, fringes
- Beaded top, trousers with side stripes, sheer
Sahana is a Senior Staff Writer at ShilpaAhuja.com. With an experience in fashion and lifestyle writing, Sahana is responsible for Indian and international fashion week coverage every year, and is developing an expertise in apparel trend forecasting. She also writes about health and fitness, having pursued yoga for 6 years now. She’s not a gym person at all but is all for “running in the park” and is an amateur cyclist. Books and coffee are her other passions. She’s also an amateur photographer. She’s a hardcore Bollywood fan and she loves to cover the nostalgic topics on the same. From fashion trends to famous characters, she can make anyone love Bollywood! Her best article has been 90s Bollywood fashion, a readers’ favorite so far! Prior to her experience with ShilpaAhuja.com, Sahana has written as a freelance author for online magazine, Mashup Corner, and interned at EventsHigh as a content writer. Her blogs on basic fashion, makeup, fitness and city’s food joints that gave her a chance to experiment with her writing. She also has voiced her opinions about feminism and equal rights for men and women at PolkaCafe journals and after quitting her job, she decided to take up writing as her full time career.
Sahana is an engineering graduate and has worked in an MNC, Tesco, for more than a year as an Operations Support. It was her sheer love for fashion that made her quit the monotonous 9 to 5 job to pursue a career in the fashion industry. She’s originally from Bangalore and is currently settled in Chennai (she’s loving the city)! For any queries and discussions, contact her at [email protected] You can also tweet her at https://twitter.com/Sahana_17