Fall/ Winter 2016-2017 Accessory Trends
Want to get the best ride on the fashion roller coaster? No
sweat, just make a beeline to the fall/ winter 2016-2017
accessory trends full of crazy ups and downs causing the
adrenaline rush in the blood and igniting the desire to feel it over and over
again.
If you always have your finger on the pulse of fashion fluctuations, it is
crystal clear that the Eighties and the Nineties are coming back in a more
grandiose way touching upon every fashion section out there. Trip down your
memory lane and bring back those high-waist denim pants, leather moto jackets,
slip dresses, Dr. Martens, fanny packs, berry lips and, of course, ultra-feminine
chokers. Then buckle down to squirt them with the best vibes tackled from
contemporary life and get nothing else but a fashion roller coaster.
The agenda for today? Come along with us to dig into the most accessorized
part of the roller coaster and dive into the fall/ winter 2016-2017 accessory
trends that
might at times leave you with a poker face (I have seen this many a time and
oft) but more frequently with eyes wide open either clapping hands with glee
upon new charming accessorizing options or uttering decidedly: “I will not try
this for all the tea in China”.
Apart from statement
handbags
and killer
shoes
we have embarked on to discuss earlier, many other accessory options have made
their way through fashion avenues starting from jewelry pieces and belts to
warm scarves, gloves and hosiery totally tuned up for brass monkey days. Browse
through our list of the best fall 2016 accessory trends, then spruce up and
jazz up!
Fall/ Winter 2016-2017 Jewelry Trends
#1. Choker Competitions: Rigidness vs.
Fragility
Choker mania kick-started earlier in the spring/summer 2014 season and we
came up with clear understanding even then that this trend is really happening
and will happen for a long time yet. How could we be so sure? History repeats
itself.
In not-too-distant Nineties when we were all pumped about that black pendant
choker on Leon’s Mathilda or those plastic tattoo chokers on cool schoolgirls,
these tricky pieces were already up to assume new disguises for the future. We
see the result on the fall 2016 jewelry trends running over with thongs of
choker necklaces.
What else to call it if not a real competition when a fashion-conscious girl
is literally caught between two stools – namely, between
Balmain’s
chunky metallic-glassy chokers and
Dries
Van Noten’s fragile feathered ones, between
Loewe’s
rigid golden chokers and
Fendi’s
furry sweet nothings, between
Lanvin’s
gemstone neck-jailing chokers and Luisa Beccaria’s tender velvet stunners?
Dilemmas do not end in here but drag on and on from
Oscar
de la Renta and
Saint
Laurent to
Antonio
Marras and
Chanel.
#2. Statement Pendants
There seems to come
no lull for pendants, really, from ancient amulet and religious pendants
to contemporary statement ones. The recent fall/ winter 2016-2017
jewelry trends have it made in the shade to tout a range of eye-catching
pendants distracting all attention from those tiny tender ones.
Indeed, those medallion garden-variety pendants spotted at
John Galliano or tiny fang ones happening quite frequently at
Trussardi
were undeniably delicious and lovesome but left in the shade next to
those gargantuan napa pendants at Loewe in the shape of feline and human
faces or in the shape of metallic golden handbags.
We are going further to find those large-scale twisted metallic pendants at
Valentino too or the kaleidoscopic ones at
Anna Sui and if the fantastic tour is still afoot, there come into view the cigarette-lighter shaped pendants at
Moschino, the spring-shaped ones at
Opening Ceremony and those three scarlet gems at
Ralph Lauren to form a delicate pendant choker.
#3. Ear Cuffs, Multiple Piercings and Other Punk Solutions for Ears
When
we state that the Nineties are coming back, pop-punk ear candies are
surely among them forming one of the most viral fall/ winter 2016-2017
jewelry trends. The pop punk movement reaching its apogee in the ‘90s as
the logical continuation of the punk movement broken out in the ‘70s
brought ear cuffs and piercings forefront as number one barometers of
the devotion to this style.
Today’s punk earrings do not
necessitate any intimacy with punk culture or any colored Mohawk
hairstyle to take on. They were rendered out in so many styles on the
recent runway shows that chances are to adapt them quite successfully
with your romantic, casual and elegant styles alike. And this is not
preaching to the wind but a well-grounded statement.
Just run an eye over those chain ear cuffs at
Alexander McQueen
trickling down with butterflies, stars and other lovey-dovey items and
working so triumphantly within the romantic moon theme of the show.
Then stop at Saint Laurent to relish in those haute-couture-worthy ear cuffs as the finale tidbits by Hedi Slimane or at
Balenciaga just to make sure that wrap-around ear cuffs look equally mind-blowing within underground chic a la Demna Gvasalia.
The gothic models of
Dior bring about multiple-piercing craziness, while at Koché it is all about ear and nose piercings rolled into one.
#4. Punk Must Go On: Safety Pins, Buckles and Heavy Chains
Given
that the fall/ winter 2016-2017 accessory trends are in quest of
revitalizing rebellious, anarchistic and adventuresome sides of women,
it comes as no shock to see so much punk around at times mixed with
gothic gloom and chagrin. English safety pins, buckles and heavy chains
literally streamed in to form another big accessory trend.
All kick-started in New York at
Alexander Wang’s “Strict” runway show,
when buckled chokers came to mix with chains then passing the torch of
tension to Alexander McQueen at London Fashion Week full of charmed
chains.
Moschino in Milan again brought about a crazy mishmash of
chains and leather buckles but the punk festival reached its pinnacle in
Paris – we were treated to buckle chokers at
Gucci, red buckle wristbands and safety pin brooches at
Isabel Marant, giant safety pin earrings at
Sonia Rykiel and Balenciaga, and safety pin necklaces spotted at
Celine. No doubt, anarchism is underway.
#5. Multilayering Your Jewelry Is On!
What
is the best jewelry piece to glam up any plain look in a flash? Layers
over layers, in a nutshell, multilayers. They always cut the mustard in
dolling up whether warm winter outfits or summer lightweight slip-ons
coming in different materials and styles.
The forthcoming
multilayered necklaces are mainly metallic with two, three or four tiers
cascading down and full of some knick-knack charms like we see at
Valentino and
Etro
or showing off some disheveled chain layers dropping down from chokers
like at Alexander McQueen. For the most exquisite multilayered
necklaces, lay a bet on those pearly intricate ones at Chanel.
#6. Raw Stones A-Going
How else should raw
stones play for the upcoming cold seasons if not hardball? This is one
of the biggest fall 2016 jewelry trends popped up quite unexpectedly on
the runways in a pop of colors, begetting pendants or bracelets, rings
or earrings.
If at
Elie Saab a range of raw stone pendants and earrings is playing in 50 shades of purple, at
Alexis Mabille all eyes are on those gigantic dodger blue necklaces and rings blowing away all the cobwebs instantly. Check out
Proenza Schouler, Dries Van Noten or
Calvin Klein Collection as well to garner even more enlivening raw-stony impressions.
#7. Single Earrings
Single earrings have
been all the rage for a long time now but kicked it with even higher
gear on recent fall/winter runways in all styles possible starting from
Loewe’s hoop earrings and Isabel Marant’s ball droplets to
Anthony Vaccarello’s bejeweled elongated threads and
Roberto Cavalli’s
amulet earrings beaming over with charms. The moral of the story? To
launch a challenge against your minimalist fashion predilections!
#8. Twin Bracelets
We are not sure about the
fashion designers’ motives to churn out so many twin bracelets worn on
the wrist as alike as two peas in a pod, but it seems there has been a
stealthy glance at prisoners. The fall/ winter 2016-2017 jewelry trends
are running over with twin bracelets evocative of handcuffs only without
the linking chain, and truth be told, if ever to live through hand
jailing moments, then with these twin bracelets all in vogue now.
No matter if they are chunky like we see at
Dsquared2
(twin brothers standing behind twin bracelets) or delicately thin as at
Anthony Vaccarello and Alexander Wang, they easily pull off to sweep us
off feet.
To cap it off Chanel’s cuff versions are fiercely
attacking, all bejeweled, in the shape of hearts and worn over sleeves
or knit gloves. Among other attackers are
Marchesa,
Zimmermann,
Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent, Trina Turk and many other fashion houses in between.
#9. Flitter Flutter Tassels
When we are over
and done with everything punk, rock and gothic, those bohemian tassels
are breezing in flittering and fluttering all the while. Apart from
appearing on handbags and shoes, tassels carry on conquering new
territories on the fall 2016 runways shaping up another enlivening
jewelry trend we are so impatient to embrace soon.
The widest
scale tassel purveyors appeared to be Dsquared2 and Elie Saab, the
former with its playful droplet tasseled earrings, while the latter with
its rope leather necklaces with tassel ends undulating hilariously, not
to tell about that tasseled deluge on a range of lace dresses. Don’t
miss other tasseled jewelry samples at Gucci,
Tory Burch, Antonio Marras,
Tod’s and Marchesa.
#10. Pearly Avalanche
There is one and only
guaranteed method to become pearl of beauty – to fling yourself into
pearly avalanche. Pearls have always read elegance and chic, befitting
mature women more than young ladies.
But when it comes to the
fall/ winter 2016-2017 jewelry trends, nothing is left but to break up
all the clichés. How not to do it if those pearl strings come into view
at
Miu Miu or Moschino so provocatively matched with those ripped and slovenly denim pieces?
Is
it possible not to blank out the elegance factor of pearls and not to
get enamored with those pearl necklaces + sportive outfit combos at
Rag & Bone or those intriguing thread earrings spotted at Gucci and
Marni?
And
if you crave for touching the eccentric side of pearls, there is no
better venue for that than Dries Van Noten’s runway, where Marchesa
Luisa Casati was flaunting demonstrating multiple pearly rings, single
pearl brooches attached on the neckties or pearl-topped pins pierced
into chokers.
However, the thongs of multilayered pearly necklaces
at Chanel have pulled off to keep elegant traditions yet adding some
playfulness throughout.
#11. Jingle-Jangle Charms and Amulets
The
next fall 2016 jewelry trend on our list stands for stars, keys, hearts,
half-moons, evil eyes, books and all the jazz that were clustered to
form different jewelry pieces jingling-jangling happily – earrings,
necklaces, brooches and body jewelry at Alexander McQueen, single
earrings at Roberto Cavalli, a range of labyrinthine necklaces and belt
trinkets at
Prada, and tiered necklaces at Valentino and
Temperley London.
So
if these amulets fail to protect you from danger or harm in the cold
seasons to come, mind-blowing looks of yours are guaranteed, for sure.
#12. Not So Matchy-Matchy Earrings
The
symmetrical beauty period is consigned to oblivion. The more asymmetry
is around, the more beguiling looks are to be expected. That’s why not
so matchy-matchy earrings are all de rigueur at this juncture making a
voyage from the previous spring/summer season to the fall/ winter
2016-2017 accessory trends.
While at some fashion houses earrings
differ only in length like we see at Sonia Rykiel or Ports 1961, other
designers have dared to expose variously-shaped samples much as we see
at Alexander Wang, Isabel Marant,
Topshop Unique and at Christian Dior, where different ear piercings are brought forward.
#13. Half-Done Jewelry Pieces
Catching some
half-done jewelry pieces on the fall 2016 runways does not mean that our
favorite fashion designers have under-fulfilled their tasks. This is
just a trend that might come right up your street or not so much.
Half-done choker necklaces whether with pendants or not are spotted at
Mulberry,
Creatures of the Wind,
Stella McCartney and
Tommy Hilfiger and a smattering of unfinished bracelets at Alexander Wang and Tod’s.
#14. Princess-Worthy Shine
Luxurious
diamonds and rhinestones were shining with all their glory at the fall
2016 runways as well, thus providing their carriers with princess-worthy
visages. With our eyes trained to see these ravishing pieces on special
occasions only, the recent seasonal shows came as pretty good
argumentative that they might work equally mind-blowing in everyday
life.
While at Marchesa and Saint Laurent those shiny jewelry sets
were up to the haute couture category, at Ashley Williams and House of
Holland glowing necklaces and earrings whether tiny or massive were
triumphantly adapted to everyday pantsuits, baby-doll dresses, skirts
and more.
#15. Mono and Multi Rings
Pretty rings have
been ringing off the hook all the while when it comes to the fall/
winter 2016-2017 jewelry trends, whether happening in abundance on one
hand or lodging solo on a finger.
Whether gigantic or tiny,
colored or shiny we truly get a kick out of those mono stunners at
Alexis Mabille, Bottega Veneta, Oscar de la Renta and Stella Jean. But
then admirations are doubled up with the arrival of those multiple
pearly rings from Dries Van Noten and Gucci (the latter also exposing a
glove-style mesh bracelet + rings combo), buckled ones at
Louis Vuitton and metallic charmers at Valentino, Christian Dior,
Coach and Proenza Schouler.
#16. Kaleidoscopic Beads and Gemstones
The
fall/ winter 2016-2017 accessory trends are a good chance for us all to
hark back to our childhood, grasp that magical kaleidoscope and twist it
over and over again. At Lanvin it was all about pastel shaded gemstones
that had a mission to form massive chokers and dangling earrings in
spades.
At Bottega Veneta exotic jewelry sets were done within the
blue-green color spectrum, at Dries Van Noten iridescent geometric
beads were put together to form elongated head-turners, while at Ralph
Lauren a chic kaleidoscopic necklace brings about some regality with
that crown shape in between to just add extra evidence.
#17. Bracelets over Sleeves and Gloves
Oh,
my stars and garters! We are in the thick of far the most inspiring
jewelry trend for fall 2016 – to wear cuff, bauble or any other bracelet
styles over sleeves or your cool gloves to create an overcool visage.
Karl
Lagerfeld is seemingly leading the pack in this trend working out a
range of twin bracelets worn over killer gloves at Chanel; at Prada
rose-shaped bracelets are worn over knit gloves, while at Ralph Lauren
it is a waist watch to have found its appropriate venue over a knit
taupe jacket sleeve.
To get even more inspiration for this trend, there are still
Maison Margiela, Undercover, Opening Ceremony and Oscar de la Renta, just to name a few.
#18. Geometric Pleasures
Even if your great
obsession with liberal arts has never allowed you to vote for geometry,
falling for pretty materialization of geometric shapes on jewelry pieces
is more than feasible now. To check your reaction to them, just look to
the fall/ winter 2016-2017 jewelry trends that were working restlessly
for your geometric pleasures.
Tackle many linked golden circles
and circle + rectangular combos from Loewe, iridescent plastic earrings
and brooches in all geometric shapes possible from
Emporio Armani,
crescent and cylinder shaped single earrings at Stella McCartney, many
hoop earring versions at Creatures of the Wind and Zimmermann and sphere
droplet single earrings at Isabel Marant. So isn’t there any sincere
confession now?
#19. Melted or Twisted Effect Metallic Earrings
If
it so happens that your jewelry box needs some pretty effective
replenishment at some moment in the future, melted and twisted effect
metallic stunners shining and beaming on the fall 2016 runways are to
complete that task victoriously enough.
Among the trendsetters in
this sphere is primarily Valentino with its elongated metallic earrings
and statement necklaces that seem to have been gathering dust somewhere
deep in a dower chest, then brought to surface for not-in-the-cards
trend.
We see twisted metallic earrings in some amorphous shapes and with mirror-reflection shine at
Mugler and a thread of golden ones suggestive of a melted-then-frosted metal.
#20. Flora and Fauna-Inspired Jewelry
Whenever
we bump into the fall/winter seasonal shows we know it beforehand that
the flora and fauna fad of ours will not be so easy to satisfy as in the
warm season. However, this time around we have flowers in droves
whether as
garment prints or as accessory shapes, albeit not so vibrant and fresh, but more frequently in muted and frozen shades.
The
rose-shaped vintage chokers and bracelets over gloves are spotted on
Prada’s adventuresome models, a fragile bubblegum flower-brooch and a
metallic floral pendant – at Gucci, while at
Diane von Furstenberg it is the floral chokers to make the scene.
However, when with
Rodarte
there comes to be no lack in as-if-freshly-cut realistic flowers –
bunches of iridescent flowers clustered together to shape vertiginous
wrap-around cuff earrings, necklaces and hair accessories with some
metallic samples in between, the full monty spreading dizzy aroma
around.
Fauna representatives are not dormant either from friendly butterflies and dragonflies at
Anna Sui, Roberto Cavalli and Bibhu Mohapatra to fierce tigers on Gucci’s belts, handbags and rings.
