Chloé Spring 2006: Putting ‘Pretty’ In Spring
Paris Prêt-á-Porter (Paris Women's Ready-To-Wear) Spring 2006
By Michelle Taylor
Photos by Giovanni Pucci
PARIS, Oct 10, 2005/ FW/ --- Little girls are made of all things nice and new mum Phoebe Philo puts the pretty into a spring summer 2006 collection of sixties memoirs and all things romantic for Chloe.
Victorian collars and detailed shirtfronts sit on crisp white dresses for a summer made up easy shapes and graceful voluminous forms.
Sixties playschool pinafores and play dresses are daywear essentials made sexy with hemlines that sit above the knee and clever transparency that is cheeky and mischievous even for good girls.
Girly frills and ruffles mixed with floral tone on tone appliqué turn to military tautness as ties become the new found feminine accessory worn with short snappy sleeve shirts and skirts.
Buttons are functional detail, both small and large, like on little jackets reduced in length and on skirts and roomy shirts.
Philo serves up a colour palette of undertone simplicity sticking to whites and pales with an occasional splash of bright light, like the orange coat with large buttons that sits above the knee.
Simple lines and softness make the Chloe wardrobe accessible for women of all genres, from mum to career power needs she is nonetheless a lady of charm and knows exactly what she wants and where to get it.
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