All things shiny

Cara, I can never spell her surname first time round, Delevingne is my girl crush of the moment so as you can imagine, I was as pleased as punch when she won the accolade of Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards 2012 last month.

Miss Delevingne is wonderfully (and I'm not even sure I like this word) fierce. Her eyes, those brows, her fun clowning personality, her laissez-faire edgy style and did I mention those brows? 

CD looked pretty much perfect in Burberry's super-shiny metallic mint dress at the BFAs.
 

At the British Fashion Awards 2012

So stepping away from my slight obsession with the beautiful, goofy Delevingne, I want to talk metallics. 

Maybe it's because it's nearing Christmas and shiny things accord so well with sparkly gifts, frosty mornings and glittery Christmas trees but if there is any trend getting my jolly juices flowing, its metallics.

It's one of those that has transcended seasons and is still as relevant as it was during Spring/Summer and A/W last year when seen on the catwalks of Stella McCartney, Alexander Wang, Ralph Lauren, Rodarte and Burberry Prorsum.

The metallic trend has also been seen recently on BFA nominee Jourdan Dunn. Forget the idea that metallics look ostentatious; the new metallics have a softness and a luminescence that ooze sensuality and elegance. Burberry's golds are angelic not gaudy because they've toned down the yellow to fresher shades. 

Likewise with Cara's mint green dress; the colour evokes images of the galatic but the fabric bends to reveal darker tones, softening the electricity of the colour. 

And the only way wear metallics is to mattify everything else or at least one's makeup. The look has to be soft and minimal.

To a screening of A life of Pi, Freda Pinto wore a molten-gold Ralph Lauren gown that seemed to drip down Miss Pinto's body.

This season's metallics are warm, sensual and delightfully accessible.
This doesn't have to be a trend just for the model pack or Hollywood elite. I mean, hello... look at Cara's shoes. They look like angel's wings. Even if you don't fancy going head to toe, just a little metallic is enough to pack some serious on-trend punch.

So the point of metallics?

Unadulterated, unapologetic fashion fantasy. 

You can't wear metallics to the supermarket, to work, to your Grandmother's for Sunday roast. Metallics are to be seen, for unrivalled sumptuousness, for occasion, romance and to live, for just a little while, in a dream. Metallics are for when nothing else could possibly do.

And that's why this season I'm gladly appreciating a ll things shiny.

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