This season designers have stretched their wings with fanciful fashions that pay homage to the magnificent and ephemeral butterfly. Fluttering into stores everywhere have been butterfly-print dresses, bags, shoes, jewelry and other gorgeous accessories. These colorful, ultra-feminine designs are the perfect fashion statement for those lighthearted warm-weather months when the Monarchs themselves enjoy their short-lived time with us.
However, like the real creatures, which migrate to warmer climes when the weather cools down, these beautiful butterfly prints won’t stay forever, so catch them while they’re still in flight. What’s waiting in the wings as the next print-of-the-moment? Something equally mesmerizing and captivating, we hope.
Flight School: Butterfly fashions, clockwise from bottom left: Limited edition butterfly wire headband from Asos, $23. Kate Spade Papillon necklace, $148. Sophia Webster black butterfly bootie. Long-sleeve butterfly-print Bambolina dress by Valentino, $4,290 at Neiman Marcus. Chiffon layered bandeau butterfly-print dress by ASOS, $67. Butterfly Torsade necklace by Alexis Bittar, $795 at Neiman Marcus. Satin and kid-leather butterfly pump by Tabitha Simmons.
To view many more butterfly-inspired fashions, visit Red Typewriter‘s Pinterest page. And tell us which of these winged creatures most appeals to your fashion sensibility.
