Temporary tattoos are the latest beauty obsession in the fashion biz. This Nineties trend was recently brought under the fashion spotlights thanks to Dion Lee, an Australian designer who staged his spring-summer 2019 collection at New York Fashion Week. Lace gave a romantic and soft atmosphere to the whole collection especially because these beautiful embroideries weren’t only on the clothes: the designer, in fact, chose to decorate the models’ skin with beautiful lace temporary tattoos.
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- Dion Lee Spring Summer 2019
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- Dion Lee Spring Summer 2019
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- Dion Lee Spring Summer 2019
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- Dion Lee Spring Summer 2019
Actually, Dion Lee’s inky designs were more than just temporary tattoos, they’re a true homage to body art. The designer transferred real artworks on the skin, that becomes a canvas where it’s easy to draw or to write a concept. The same expedient was used by Christian Dior for Haute Couture spring-summer 2018 fashion show, staged in Paris last January: creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri, celebrating Surrealism on the catwalk, decided to accessorize the outfits with “slogan tattoos”, inked around the models’ necks like chokers, inspired by Andre Breton’s The Surrealist Manifesto quotes.
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- Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018
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- Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2018
In these years, fashion became faster than ever, and trends are forgotten in less than a season. That’s why temporary tattoos seem to be the perfect answer to the recent “hit-and-run” aesthetic: it’s easy to follow the trends if we don’t have to leave an indelible design on our skin! It can be a slogan or a drawing inspired by the clothes we’re wearing: temporary tattoos give a cool touch to our look, without pushing us to make a “permanent” decision!
Do you want to know who recently rediscovered temporary tattoos? Our dearest Chiara Ferragni! Filming her documentary in her house in Cremona, her hometown, she found in her old room some temporary tattoos starring Leonardo DiCaprio, her teen crush. For a tattoo-obsessed like her, these temporary tattoos brought her back to her teenage years! And of course, she couldn’t resist extending her tattoos collection with the legendary Leo!