Street Style Trend Report: 10 ways to wear black and white from the crowd at Toronto Fashion Week
Street Style Trend Report: 10 ways to wear black and white from the crowd at Toronto Fashion Week
By Frances McInnis |
By Frances McInnis |
Photography by Kayla Rocca
Runway fans—normally a fickle bunch—are still rocking black-and-white prints, even though it’s been more than a year since they first started cropping up. How to explain the trend’s staying power? Perhaps the jailbird palette appeals to Toronto’s colour-averse fashion set, or maybe it’s that graphic prints have just the right level of look-at-me impact. Or perhaps we can chalk it up to the patterns’ ability to look polished, quirky, feminine or bohemian depending on how they’re styled. In any event, the high-contrast look is here to stay. Here, 10 ways to pull it off from the crowd at Toronto Fashion Week.
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