Heat wave rimes with white wave for spring/summer! Hot weather and filthy niño air will blow everything off, except few filmy fabrics…

Get ready to show some leg in ingénu white: the new Marylin Monroe will wear only one major piece of clothing each time… and not much underneath! White is the color for sexiness and freshness, the only way to fight against the heat wave. We love the concept of simple blazer-dresses with a plunging décolleté, exposing bits of skin here and there.

White is also the minimalist color, adding a touch of class to the simplest tee-shirt. Only a rule applies: white must be blinding! No cream, no grey-ish white, only snow white! Let’s not forget it’s also the easiest color for bikinis, and above anything else for transparent little dresses. Weightlessness and sheerness are the keys to feel superbly fresh even in the warmest day…

…And perhaps a powerful weapon of destruction will come: a chilly wind! Following Marilyn’s road, designers have imagined plenty of little floating dresses, large at the bottom, just in case there was a breath of air somewhere… Hussein Chalayan has even pushed it further with his (already blown away) foulard… Dress smart, dress light, dress white!

Runway pictures from Givenchy, Giambattista Valli, Yves Saint Laurent, Celine, Tim Hamilton, Jil Sander, Prada, Hussein Chalayan, Marc Jacobs, Narciso Rodriguez, Bottega Veneta, Calvin Klein and Max Azria.