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According to the Runways, Maximal Prints are in This Spring

See the fully floral, top to bottom tie-dye, and other maxilmalst prints that took over the Spring/Summer 2021 runways.

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The lack of stimulation at home has officially left its mark on this year’s Spring/Summer runways: maximalist prints are everywhere. From shoulder to foot floral Valentino dresses, to graphic graffiti-esque Christopher Kane jackets, and a paisley-palooza courtesy of Etro, designers held nothing back in the print department this Spring/Summer runway season. Pre-pandemic, these styles might have been polarizing, but a year of isolation and Netflix has left all our eyes wanting.

If the sudden desire to ditch your monochromatic sweat sets feels like an identity crisis though, chalk it up to science. Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, well, the same goes for fashion. Over a year of collectively dressing like dystopian unabombers has resulted in (at least) a spring and summer’s worth of dressing like Mrs. Roper, or any other print crazed pop-culture persona.

So don’t fight the urge, embrace mixing and matching the ordinarily un-mix-and-matchable. And in case you need a little help, L’OFFICIEL rounds up the best maximally printed looks from the Spring/Summer 2021 runways.

Dior

 
 

Etro

 
 

Valentino

 
 

Prada

 
 

Christopher John Rodgers

 
 

Shuting Qui

 
 

Christopher Kane

 
 

Duro Oluwo

 
 

Erdem

 
 

Angel Chen

 
 

Dries Van Noten

 
 

Issey Miyake

 
 

Marni

 
 

Kenzo

 
 

Collina Strada

 
 

Charles de Vilmorin

 
 

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