When you think “spring trends,” what typically comes to mind are Easter-egg colours and floral prints.
This spring season, designers put the emphasis on strong black and white looks. This trend is the definition of wearable, appropriate to wear year-round, easy to pull off at every budget and sleek enough to wear at the office or on date night.
The bigger and bolder the motif, the better. If worn head-to-toe, they’re just plain cool. The art of contrast and colour blocking are bigs news when playing around with black and white. Here are three ways to wear this trend:
1. The head-to-toe pant suit
2. Mix and match stripes
You might be surprised to learn there was absolutely no colour correction used to alter this black and white footage. Actually, this dude Eran Amir created the black and white video by painting a whole room (and himself) shades of grey. All the footage was then captured on a colour camera.
Colour me impressed. I love that his surroundings eventually do a Pleasantville 180, as the orange juice, Rubik’s cube and eventually Amir himself return to their raw colours. If you’re in awe like us, you can also see the making of the video after the jump.
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Kim Kardashian’s cameo in DJ Khaled, Rick Ross and Kanye West’s hybrid music video for ”I Wish You Would/Cold” is pretty brief, nevertheless it must sting Kris Humphries. Kardashian appears when Kanye raps: “And I’ll admit I had fell in love with Kim/ Around the same time she had fell in love with him.” Of course, the “him” Kanye is referring to is Kim’s ex-husband Kris Humphries.
The black and white, grainy music video was directed by Hype Williams, who has directed videos for Coldplay, Kesha, Nicki Minaj and Jay-Z. I wouldn’t say this particular video is his most conceptual considering it essentially consists of the three guys rapping in a long underground tunnel. If the shaky camera work makes you too queasy, skip ahead to 5:10 to get a glimpse of Kimye.
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In 2 Chainz and Drake’s new black and white video for “No Lie” the two rappers knock it back in a white-walled room with black paint oozing over the sides like the lines of a polygraph machine.
Various women wearing feather headdresses and ballerina-esque bodysuits dance around them while the duo talk about telling no lies (if you didn’t get them from the title). It’s a pretty standard video with various slow motion sequences, which is surprising since it’s by Director X, who did Drake’s “HYFR.”
The song has a good beat but the video’s pretty YAWN. What do you think?
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