Trending: Karate for Spring

As I said earlier, I am obsessed with spring. Far to obsessed for anyone to be about something that I am coming to believe is an urban legend. I am like those people who spend their lives looking for Bigfoot in the mountains up in Washington, who take plaster casts of places where little kittens slept in the forest and say it is his footprint. Only instead of my whole life it is this weekend, and instead of Bigfoot it is fashion, and instead of Washington it is the internet, and instead of plaster casts it is me really excited about birds foraging in my backyard because maybe, maybe spring is coming.

Anyway, I noticed something... awesome.

HIIIIIIIYA!

This Caroline Herrera outfit seems almost like a joke. The model isn't even wearing shoes! Maybe Ms. Herrera took a karate class (with A. Wang) to prep for the season and this is an homage. If I ever had a Karate dojo, I would require that all my pupils wore this piece. To be frank, this will never happen. And not just because nobody in their right mind would buy this for a pre-teen. And only pre-teens do karate. And Mr. Miagi. I will also never own a karate dojo because I never took karate as a pre-teen. I will have to make up for this hole in my heart by wearing this white belt outfit with pride.

Sooooo white.

Not only are the karate jackets some of the only non-sheer elements of Alexander Wang's spring collection, they are fantastic. And the pockets are just great. I love me a breast pocket. But who doesn't? What better place to put your University ID card (and then think you lost it, pay $20 for a new one, and find it when you do laundry three weeks later)? Seriously though, I do love breast pockets.

On a side note, when I was in 5th grade there was a Halloween party for my whole grade and I was so excited about it. I dressed up as an ice cube, which sounds cute in theory but is extremely spatially challenging in practice. I covered a box with blue satin and made straps that went over my shoulders, which created a box skirt/suspenders effect (for a very fashion forward adolescent). But what I am actually getting to is that my mom and I put little pony tails all around my head and then gelled them solid and sprayed them with metallic blue hair dye crap. And it looked exactly like A. Wang's models.

I knew I could count on you...

Continuing this trend and skewing it a bit papal is Chloé (yes this is kind of a stretch, but the feel of the collection does sort of fall into karate). Again, the look is paired with hand-to-hand combat appropriate footwear, because if you can't beat up a dude with pink ballet flats on, you can't beat up a dude. Since it is Chloé (yes, I just like putting the accent-aigu), there is a skirt involved, but the top has definite dojo tendencies, especially with the white belt that could maybe be terry cloth but def isn't. Lady MacGibbon makes this karate look chic, she is truly a goddess of femininity and shit.

Regardless, I urge you all to email your parents and ask them to send you that bathrobe/weird pants thing so you can rock this look come spring. Or if you are like me and had hippy parents who didn't let you do karate, go to your local karate mart.