As the 2017 Resort collections stream in, variety demonstrates the range of tastes fashion aims to cater to. Some of the choices are cleaner while others are rich in detail.

Our world is rife with overload. We have more choices and inspirations for variety than what was available in any previous generation. The full access to what the world has to offer combined with our shift in attention spans leads us towards supersaturation. The noise of everything can be met on either end of the spectrum now. For some, it is tuning it out for focusing on singularity of choice. For others, it is there welcome of everything at once.

Plenty is the antidote of material insecurity; give more than what is needed when faced with threatening times and we are insulated from the woes of the world. The woes don’t disappear, of course. But hyper abundance within our grasp fills us.

Hence, collections from Acne Studios, Christian Dior, Christopher Kane, Erdem, Etro, Fendi, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, M Missoni, No. 21, Oscar de la Renta, Red Valentino, Roberto Cavalli Tory Burch and Ulla Johnson reflect this by through excess of detail and hyper print execution, much the same way that Lacroix had done in the 80s and in what we had in the late 60s during tumultuous periods where knowledge beyond expectations filled our minds.

There were other collections that did not go quite in this direction, and some of these reflect other aspects of our mindsets that this blog will faithfully reflect on over time, as we all do when faced with mass information ourselves.