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Spring fashion is the clothing of the season that follows fall, when the weather turns warm — and in fashion terms, the moment collections change from Fall/Winter to Spring/Summer. The confusing part is the calendar: the fashion industry works at least a season ahead of the consumer. Designers show spring fashion at fashion week events in September, when store buyers shop the collections; the garments are then produced and shipped, and only later appear in boutiques and stores. Spring collections typically use spring- or summer-weight fabrics — lighter weights than winter — and traditionally lighter or pastel colors, though that is not set in stone.
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Carolina Herrera Spring Fashion
Christian Dior Spring Fashions
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Jean-Paul Gaultier Spring Fashion
Karl Lagerfeld Spring Fashions
Oscar de la Renta Spring Fashion
Roberto Cavalli Spring Fashions
Written by ML at Apparel Search August 2, 2007
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Check out spring fashion week videos at the Fashion Week Videos website. You can also check out spring fashion photos at the Fashion Week Photos website.
Most confusion about spring fashion comes from the word doing double duty. For shoppers, spring is a stretch of weather — the weeks when heavy coats come off and lighter clothing goes on. For the industry, spring is a product season that begins months earlier, in design studios and September showrooms, and ends on the shop floor just as the weather catches up. A consumer who sees a spring collection in a magazine in September cannot buy it at retail yet, not because it is exclusive but because it has not been produced: the buyers' orders from fashion week are what get manufactured and shipped.
That lead time is also why spring is merchandised as Spring/Summer. The fabrics ordered in September have to carry a store from the first warm days through high summer, so spring-weight cloth, transitional pieces and summer-weight garments are planned as one continuous offer. The seasonal transitions page covers the wardrobe side of the same changeover — how clothing rotates as one season gives way to the next.
Because fashion week is a buying event, not a retail one. Designers display spring collections in September so store buyers can order them; the clothes then have to be produced and shipped before they can appear in stores for the spring season. The industry runs at least a season ahead of the consumer.
Clothing for spring collections typically uses spring-weight or summer-weight fabrics — lighter than winter weights, since most people prefer heavier fabrics for winter and lighter ones for summer. Color traditionally runs light or pastel for spring against darker fall colors, though designers are not bound by the convention.
The combined warm-weather season of the fashion calendar. Spring fashion is presented and sold together with summer fashion as one Spring/Summer collection, opposite the Fall/Winter collection — the two-season rhythm the designer seasons and spring collection guides are organized around.