From Pretty Florals To Hypnotic Stripes, It’s Time To Have Fun With Patterns

Spring comes once a year and so do its requisite florals. Roses are rendered abstract, blooms of indiscriminate variety coil up shirts and down dresses.

And then there are patterns, stripes and checks and iridescence, which this season have all been given a gentle dose of energy. Kowtow’s statement-making Celeste dress draws its inspiration from bioluminescence, while Jojo Ross’ stretchy Mystics piece resembles a sand storm (also available in Ocean Storm and Hubba Bubba Plissé).

If the street style at New Zealand Fashion Week: Kahuria has communicated anything, it’s that personal style has no limits, and neither does colour. Scroll for clothes that ground yourself in the season that swings from florals to flamboyance and back again.

Kowtow dress $359.

Oroton shirt approx $430.

Ganni dress approx $630.

Em On Holiday trousers $254.

Ricochet top $299 and skirt $359.

Lee Mathews blazer, $795, and skirt, $550, from Muse.

Jojo Ross dress $345.

Twenty-seven Names shirt $520.

Wray dress approx $330.

Zara jacket $189.

Dries Van Noten dress, $1950, from Scotties.

Wallace Rose trousers $395.

Kate Sylvester dress $599.

Rave Review skirt approx $589.

Story MFG jacket, $729, from Sully’s.

Hilda Ereaut top approx $555.

Penny Sage dress $420.

Romance Was Born top approx $345.

Par Moi blazer $253 and skirt $169.

Max dress $170.

Patterned pieces compiled by Annabel Dickson.