Shiny dresses and other outfits spring-summer 2016

The shine of silver or gold, the shine of sequins or rhinestones creates a sense of celebration. However, not only precious metal or rhinestones can shine. In the new season, many designers have turned to shiny fabrics, in which the models look not only festive, but some of them look like guests from the future.

What outfits do we see in the spring-summer 2016 season?

Iris van Herpen

Photo above - Loewe, Tamara Mellon
Photo below - Felder Felder

With shiny fabrics, you can create various images, for example, with a space effect, with elements of fantasy, or maybe the image of a fairy-tale princess. But in the warm season of 2016, designers offer us to add sparkle to everyday life. For example, a daytime option could be a model where a shiny blouse and jeans are combined in a calm color palette.

A shiny blue top in a layered version with a dark blue chiffon dress can be worn not only for a party, but also as a daily outfit. Matte slightly widened trousers with a top of the same color will decorate a jacket made of brocade or printed satin, and you can wear such an ensemble for a business meeting.

Roberto Cavalli, Ermanno Scervino
Dries Van Noten, Carolina Herrera

Shiny Dresses

Evening dresses can be created from shiny fabrics, where sequins, rhinestones, plates of various shapes and sizes, as well as lurex, metallic mesh or simply iridescent fabrics in rainbow colors play a dazzling role.

The most important thing here is to take into account that the fabric is expensive. Its texture, play of light reflections, overflows - everything should sparkle or reflect light, shine and sparkle. Satin, jacquard, brocade, chiffon with sequins, fabrics with lurex - these fabrics always look great and shiny.

Naeem khan
Cristallini, Badgley Mischka

But it is not at all necessary to glow and shine completely. There are fabrics in which rare metallic threads give a light sparkle, and sequins or rhinestones create a decorating ornament or a special complex pattern.

Sparkling fringe, geometric highlights look great. And if the fullness of the figure does not allow you to put on a lot of glitter, then you can limit yourself to individual shiny details - for example, an ornament in the form of a metal collar or an original brooch.

Badgley Mischka, Elisabetta Franchi
Felder Felder, John Richmond

The shine of the fabric, the lurex threads in combination with the calm color palette and laconic cut lines, all this can be quite appropriate for a day out.