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Spring 2009 Trends: Wild West

From fringe to cowboy hats, it’s pistols at high noon in spring’s Western wear.
{2009 SPRING TRENDS GUIDE}

Straight from the saloon to the runway, designers came out with scissors blazing as Western wear ambled into many a spring show. Cowgirl couture was a mash-up of prairie-princess looks like Chanel’s multi-tiered maxi skirt, and gaucho gunslinger pieces, such as the colourful, sheer poncho at Hermès. This ready-to-wear gold rush also encompassed Givenchy’s subtly subversive lone rangers wearing black leather capes, chaps-styled pants and metallic colonel-inspired ties, Paul & Joe’s swaggering beauties in bedazzled and frayed denim branded with stars, and Marc Jacobs’ Western world travellers in plaid shirts and prairie skirts. Jean Paul Gaultier’s classic shoot-’em-up stylistas at Hermès were decked out in sandblasted suede skirts, fringy hems, signature-scarf bandanas and 10-gallon hats. Something tells us that the fringed Kelly will cause a stampede, regardless of the sobering stock-market dips.

HERMÈS Spring 2009

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Spring 2009 Trends: Runway report
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First published in FASHION Magazine March 2009

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