Spring Into Style
This morning, Constance White, eBay’s Style Director, appeared on television shows across the country. The topic: spring fashion trends.
According to Constance, the key items women should invest in are a trench coat, a metallic handbag, a pair of Lucite platform shoes, teardrop earrings and a versatile spring dress.
According to Constance, this spring, the hot trends include:
A light color palette with several bright, bold colors
As dictated by the top designer lines, the color palette for spring is light and bright with some key pale neutrals like white, silver, gray, off-white and yellow. We’ll also see some knock-em-dead bold brights such as true purple, fuschia, orange and kelly green.
Metallic bags and clutch purses
Metallic bags in various styles will be everywhere, from high-end lines like Chloe, but also from more affordable, everyday brands like Nine West. Clutch purses are trendy this season, in styles that can easily go from day to evening.
Cropped jackets and trench coats
Every spring light coats are key, but this year we’ll see more fashionable takes on the traditional trench coat. Designers have created trenches in beautiful hues and also bold, nature-inspired prints such as leaves, flowers, insects and animals!
Platform shoes and flats
Affordable shoes abound this season with platforms in heels and wedges, and particularly in patent leather or with a Lucite heel. Dainty flats are also a hot look as they go well with most outfits and can be found in a ballerina style or a dressier, open-toed style in this spring’s colors, metallics or nature-inspired prints.
Drop earrings and hair combs
Feminine accessories set the stage for glamour with hair combs and brooches with bright flowers, jewels and other natural elements such as colorful insects.
Strapless tent and trapeze dresses
Dresses add a touch of sophistication to any outfit, whether for work, leisure or socializing. Mix and match accessories and shoes to take the same dress from work to play. Casual, yet elegant dresses in strapless or trapeze styles keep a feminine silhouette without hugging too much skin.
Tailored shorts
Shorts and pants will take on a very tailored and fitted look this season with dressy trouser shorts in a Bermuda length that can be worn to the office, to cropped cigarette-inspired pants for a classic put-together ensemble.
What’s going out of style? Constance said peasant skirts, chandelier earrings, bangle bracelets and pointy shoes.
Stay tuned for our top product picks in each category. In the meantime, feel free to share your favorites.
Hillary Locke says:
Hi There,
Can you tell me more about Constance White. I love her sense of style and would like to read up on her take on this season’s trends. She seems to really know her stuff!
Thanks!!
Hillary
March 27th, 2007
Wendy Sept says:
No problem! Here’s some additional information:
Constance White is one of the county’s most respected fashion experts. As eBay Style Director, White educates consumers about the number one fashion site on the Internet—eBay. She authors a blog on eBay (http://blogs.ebay.com/constance.white) where fashionistas read her take on the collections shown in New York and Los Angeles, as well as fashion happenings throughout the year. She also pens a style advice column, Style Etiquette (http://pages.ebay.com/etiquette/) that eBay shoppers turn to for what to wear on a first date or what outfit is most appropriate for a summer wedding.
White is the go-to-gal for fashion trends, expert commentary and industry analysis. White has appeared as a guest expert on Entertainment Tonight, the Today show, Project Runway, MTV, Oprah, E! Fashion File, America’s Next Top Model and the Style Network’s Style Star. Her fashion commentary regularly appears in newspapers across the country.
In 2005, White was instrumental in resurrecting the charity fashion event 7th on Sale. She helped the fundraiser – which made top designer fashions available to a global online audience through eBay — the largest sample sale ever on the Internet. The sale raised millions of dollars for HIV/AIDS charities. She also helped spearhead eBay’s first Fashion Suite at the 2006 Academy Awards, introducing Hollywood to the designer clothing and jewelry available on eBay.
White has held posts as a style reporter at The New York Times, executive fashion editor at Elle, associate sportswear editor at Women’s Wear Daily, and was the founding fashion director at Talk magazine. Her work also has appeared in British Vogue, People, Essence and The Chicago Tribune. White has appeared as a reporter/anchor for Full Frontal Fashion TV, and a fashion reporter for Lifetime Television.
March 28th, 2007
patti buchert says:
I am dying to find the Moschino trench Campbell Brown was wearing on the show the other day with Constance
can you help?
thanks
patti
April 2nd, 2007
Dariana Lau says:
Hi Patti, we’ve been trying to track down that coat, but it turns out it’s part of Moschino’s couture line. We’ll let you know if we can find a similar, more accessible option, but in the meantime, what about this Moschino trench that you can get at Neiman Marcus?
http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod35710068&ECID=NMAPCshopping
April 17th, 2007
J.Brown says:
I’ve noticed that some platforms have gone to the extreme.
November 10th, 2007