Not Your Grandmother’s Crochet

Come spring, prepare yourself to shed your heavy knits for see-through styles, as Crocheted fashions will be all the rage in 2019.  Netting, sheer knits, and crochet are the newest way to show a little, or maybe a lot of, skin. While the PVC (clear plastic) trend, spied at both Kate Spade and Sally Lapointe, still remains this year, knitwear is the new way to “dare to bare.”

The new crochet dressing, at times giving off a laid-back vibe like at Altuzarra, and at others a delicate flair and sophistication as with Chloé’s sophisticated Balearic take on the trend, exudes a kind of haute bohemian hippie feeling that many are welcoming back with open crochet-covered arms. Wes Gordon’s debut collection for Carolina Herrera displayed a bold orange twinset, and Michael Kors showed off a head-to-toe knit ensemble that brought to mind a fresh lemon-lime zestiness.  At Pyer Moss, 3.1 Phillip Lim, and Oscar de la Renta models walked in open-weave maxi dresses, while at Cushnie, Area, and Dion Lee,  netting was used as a layering tool, adding texture to an already-born ensemble.

However you knit-one, pearl-two it, this ain’t your grandmother’s crochet.

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