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.
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