Worst Trends 2014
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Excessively Torn Jeans
The only time your jeans should look like they were mauled by a lion caged in a Japanese zoo, is if they were mauled by a lion caged in a Japanese zoo.
Image: Imaxtree
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Platform Sneakers
Thanks to designers like Marc Jacobs and Isabel Marant, Fashion Week looked like an audition for the mysterious sixth member of the Spice Girls reunion tour.
Image: Ashish Fall 2014, Imaxtree
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Normcore
Because even basic bitches get tired of the status quo.
Image: Chanel Fall 2014, Imaxtree
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Novelty Handbags
According to Sigmund Freud, regression is a defense mechanism in which we revert to an earlier stage of development, adopting childlike mannerisms rather than handling unacceptable impulses and stress in an adult way. Just saying.
Image: Anya Hindmarch Fall 2014, Imaxtree
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Crop Tops
Who wants to bare their belly after holiday season? Anyone...anyone...Bueller?
Image: Jil Sander Spring 2014, Imaxtree
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Typography
Plain and simple: There has to be a more clever way to get things off your chest than a talking shirt.
Image: Alexander Wang Spring 2014, Imaxtree
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Patterned Leggings
All good things must come to an end — unless you're a roly-poly tater tot in a pull-up or a bouncy body double for Richard Simmons.
Image: Libertine Fall 2014, Imaxtree
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Summer Leather
No matter which way you slice and dice it, leather is still leather at the end of the day. Or did we miss something?
Image: Tom Ford Spring 2014, Imaxtree
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Mini-Maxi Skirts
The long and short of it is, this trend was DOA, or "dead on arrival." Please, DNR.
Image: DKNY Resort 2014, Courtesy of DKNY
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Gratuitous Fashion Week Posing
When models are voguing on top of taxis and bloggers are jumping on big rigs, we must stop and ask ourselves: Who's in charge here?
Image: Imaxtree
