It's that time of year again, so with the shows getting under way let's start the trend spotting
Just a reminder, if you would like to start a thread for a specific trend on the runways, please make sure that you have examples from at least 5 collections.
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So far the one of the major things going on seems to be sherbet colors.
Alexander Wang
Erin Featherston
Lacoste
ThreeAsFour nymag.com
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All I want to do is fur pants, but I know, like, if I do them I'll get stoned off of Seventh Avenue like some kind of wanton heretic or something. So there won't be any fur pants coming down my runway - Isaaz Mizrahi my blog - random musings of a fashion fiend
I also noticed NY seems to be picking up on the chignon trend started by Parisian houses last season and often spotted in our Scandinavian Street Style thread..
Jenni Kayne
Yigal Azrouel
Elie Tahari
Alexander Herchcovitch
United Bamboo
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Last edited by MulletProof : 07-09-2008 at 04:53 PM.
imo this came in from 2008 .. prada/miu miu had ruffles on their shoes and just generally billowing fabric in the spring and fall collections
same for marni.. in their online shop, it's a total direction towards wispy ruffles for the front, esp at the neckline.. and also in their resort collection
and jil sander had floating fabric at their coats' collars for fall
yes ^ grey tones and pastels ... everything softene or saddened or 'distempered'
as for LACE...
what i saw is more opaque motifs on a sheer background...
not lace like hole-y fabrics (though there was some of that too)
but rather opaque fabric placed ON TOP a transparent fabric
- the new hybrid shoe of choice: the sandal boot (seen best at Alexander Wang)
- increasingly creative palettes for shoe boots (which are still huge). Citron, orange, patent white. Colored statement boots of all varieties are a trend we'll see beyond NYC.
- Dressing for comfort. Witnessed at BCBG, Yigal Azrouel, Max Azria, etc. Ease and utility paired with innovation is what "luxury" means for Spring 2009 - in a stressful era, comfort in your own skin and body must be considered vital to contentment.
- Sports-oriented details. Maybe it's because of the Olympic year, or maybe it's related to the turn towards comfortable dressing, but A. Wang, BCBG, Lacoste (obv) all showed draped dresses and separates in tasteful jersey.
- Florals, fluttery silks, typical Spring finery themes. Nothing new here. Florals are still very big, as are bold hues and silk pailletes incorporated to create movement.
- One interesting trend: a new focus on texture and overlays. Witnessed best at Vicente Villarin, Staerk, and Malandrino. Azrouel also did some crepeing and pleating on his fabrics to make them replicate organic movements.
- Last season's trends still relevant: polished grunge (treading water from F/W 08), rock & roll meets prep (Rag & Bone and their ilk), hippie, bohemian romance (DVF, Erin Featherston), minimalism (to some degree, but not as much as I had hoped - then again, the European shows will likely develop this further).
Again, NYFW only is 1/4 of the major Spring 2009 story. And often it presents a misleading idea about where fashion is headed for the next season. Not until Paris - or Prada - will the real excitement begin.
- One interesting trend: a new focus on texture and overlays. Witnessed best at Vicente Villarin, Staerk, and Malandrino. Azrouel also did some crepeing and pleating on his fabrics to make them replicate organic movements.
would be interested to see some visuals in what you're saying, shirleebee and hearing more about what you mean
if you meant overlays by layers of transparent fabric..
i did notice this a lot
at malandrino
she would have sheers on top of graphic fabrics
fluidity over rigidity (structure with the opaque fabric.. and creating texture with pleats on top with sheers)
style.com
^gius. I mean that I've seen a lot of strategically rumpled fabrics, typically in the collections that cite nature as their influence. The rippling effects (usually in jersey) seem to be subtle indicators of organic movements. Malandrino's show definitely played with overlaying fabrics, creating depth upon the surface. I think this might relate to Prada's F/W 08 collection, which had eye-popping demonstrations of creative fabric and lace overlays. Levi Yukinov (who I interviewed a week ago) says he sees all fabrics as a base/foundation upon which to build new textures and to construct new forms. I found the first half of that statement pretty intriguing, because it reminded me of the additive scuplture method.
I'll try to post some photos (my own) of the organic movement of textiles. A lot of the shows that featured this are not on style.com. But Yigal's program went into surprising detail about how important this texture-in-motion aspect was to his collection. I wonder how it translated to the average viewer? Sometimes once you spot a quality for one show, you see it everywhere. The "soft bondage" & "peekaboo" trend became ubiquitous by week's end, for example. Funny how that works.
P.S. The midriff is (kind of) back! I never would have thought.
I have seen a lot of rolled pants and harem pants but I honestly dont see these trends lasting more than a season . Rolled pants look very frumpy , and are like a very weekend thing. Harem pants can be nice but they have to be luxe ..otherwise it just ends up looking weird with your outfit.
and hearing more about what you mean
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