Seasonal accessories: user manual for 'girly' accessories

The history of seasonal add-ons is one that cannot be told without taking into account others that if not precedent, were written before. They are stories that are intertwined until it is almost impossible to distinguish where one begins and the other ends, but their plot lines are (more or less) differentiated. The first of these stories is that of the spring-summer 2021 trends; the second, the aesthetics of the 80s, but also that of part of the 90s, or even the 2000s. After all, there are pieces and styles that transcend temporality.

The most recent narrative is one that places seasonal accessories within more traditional femininity—girly, if you will. Because it is not just a classic romanticism, but one to which high doses of innocence are added and even a touch of pop, especially visible in the pink colors and in details such as feathers. And yes, talking about these dressings and not almost automatically thinking of Clueless (1995) is more than complicated. Cher would want to rock that Adriana Hot Couture top, and also that silver Prada bag, or the pointed-toe (yes, pink too) shoes that have become one of the most sought-after accessories here and now. But the protagonist of this kind of visual chronicle plays leaps in time to also find cameos that coexist with geometric earrings and, of course, with pearls, large amounts of pearls.

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Pearl jewelery is another of the spring-summer trends, showing how a jeweler's classic can be re-dressed in novelty without neglecting the past. This is what explains why BPCR earrings actually seem to be taken from another era, just like the necklaces, a concatenation of beads that wrap around a neck that never lacks a perfume, be it Chanel or Dior. And they can also be wrapped around the wrist, in the form of a bracelet, or crowned with a link ring that revisits a trend as old as it is current. A dichotomy that can also be applied to make-up classics such as nail polish or red lipstick: there are gestures that never, ever fail. And the user manual for hyper-feminine seasonal accessories is full of them.

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