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July 14, 2013
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SHORTENED SILHOUETTTE CROP TOPS & MICRO MINIS
Reed Krakoff
Balenciaga
Derek Lam
The Row
3.1 Phillip Lim
Elizabeth and James
Proenza Schouler
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omen’s Resort 2014 collections welcomed a fresh style of shortened tops and skirts. The crop top has been prominent on the runway for many seasons now, but women’s Resort 2014 displayed a new, more modest approach to the once ab-exposing shirt. The latest take on the crop top is a more modest, abbreviated blouse often boxy in silhouette. Many designers Resort 2014 collection featured looks with these effortless, abbreviated tops, whether it was Reed Krakoff’s nude sweatshirt style top or the Phillip Lim’s perforated leather top.