Brightly coloured "dopamine" outfits brighten up the summer days, and autumn "Maillard" winds blow from the runway into the streets. This year's fashion is really fast-moving, and each season has its own signature trend. With the passage of the season, a new style of "hardware girl" has quietly appeared on various online platforms in the depths of winter!
So what is a "hardware girl"?
After Maillard, there is another trendy word, specifically referring to everyday wear with metal jewelry, shiny skirts, coats, Blingbling makeup, metallic manicures, and so on. The main one is in the dull colors of autumn and winter, giving people a feeling of brightness. In short, the formula of "hardware girl" is: daily wear plus all shiny items.
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Speaking of which, have you found that the outfit of the "hardware girl" is a bit "lucky"? And I think this kind of girl shows a trend of self-confidence, independence, and fashion-forward.
"Hardware Girl" is the first to match Dafa
Fashionable "gold" chain
To be a qualified "hardware girl", the first thing to do is to "multi-gold", and put metal elements in the first place.
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Cool and sassy big gold chains, autumn and winter can be matched with sweaters, and then put on coats or blazers; in spring and autumn, you can wear them alone, or you can stack them, and integrate hardware elements into your own dress, showing a unique charm - suddenly I found that this is not the popular element of the last century, and now it is back! From celebrities, Internet celebrity bloggers to street photographers, and then to our daily wear, you can see "gold" chain items almost everywhere, which not only meets daily wear, but also has a bit of retro fashion.
The fashion style of "hardware girl" began on the runway
Break the dullness with details
So when did the "hardware" trend start to catch on again? The 2024 runway of the major brands is blowing again, the most obvious of which is Gucci - at the 2024 Milan runway, Gucci named the show Gucci Ancora (Ancora means again, more personal; not what you lose, but what you still have, but what you want more, because it makes you happy).
The 60 looks of this show continue the complex and brilliant decorative style advocated by Michele during the Michele period, and use "hardware" elements to the extreme, such as shiny and exaggerated decorations, trousers embellished with rhinestones, shiny suits, and Blingblings are added to various fabrics.
(Image from the 2024 Gucci runway)
The combination of inlaid beads and crystal tassels breaks the dullness, adds agility to the overall costume, and also reveals the low-key luxury of the garment, incorporating the beautiful turquoise system to echo the spring and summer seasons. The white vest is inlaid with a circle of rhinestones as a trim, which makes a small vest that originally looked ordinary instantly have a sense of refinement.
(Image from the 2024 Gucci runway)
In addition to the "hardware" elements on the clothing, on the runway, you can also see exaggerated large gold earrings and necklaces, every detail can capture the core of the fashion. "Metallic texture" seems to be an element with its own sparkling light, making you stand out from the crowd in an instant.
(Image from the 2024 Gucci runway)
There are also Miumiu shorts that were first exposed before and have a very high degree of discussion, using a large number of golden sequins and fine sparkling diamonds as a whole, and also bringing elements of "hardware" style. After the shorts were launched, Miu Miu also liberated Miu Miu from the image of a sweet girl who was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and incarnated into a girl who loves freedom, is uninhibited, and is not bound by the rules of the world.
From the runway to everyday wear
Be your own "hardware girl"
How to realize the daily "hardware girl" wind. flipped through a certain red book and found some bloggers' daily outfits. For example, use some gold and silver metal jewelry as an embellishment, low-key and fashionable, black undershirt with black down jacket, add metallic accessories, suddenly break the silence of black, but also take into account the warmth of deep winter.
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In fact, the style of "hardware girl" is far more than these, and the popular radiation range also encompasses makeup, nail art, and can even continue to cross-border fields such as furniture items. Do you like this trend?