What will be fashionable in six months: 8 trends from London
SUMMING UP, held in the framework of London Fashion Week. We already wrote about the trends from New York this fall: black total bows, chokers, striped things, maxi length, parks in combination with clothes in linen style - all this also appeared on most London shows. In this material - 8 more trends from the show, which we will adapt to your wardrobe throughout this year. However, no one bothers to do it right now.
Red onion
Tension in the world, symbolized by the color red, was felt by many brands. Following last year's red apocalyptic collection COMME des GARÇONS, where things decorated roses and blood stains, red appeared in the collections of Thomas Tate and Marques'Almeida, which combined scarlet things with plain white shoes. Red was also featured in the Gareth Pugh show as an element of makeup, in the role of which were the red crosses on the models' faces. In Simone Rocha, red is presented in the framework of baroque aesthetics: the designer shows red and gold jacquard decorated with pearls. On the other hand, the appearance of a dangerous red coincided with the return of sex to fashion. So, on the Ashish Gupta show, models stepped on the catwalk in high red latex boots.
Baroque
In addition to gothic and black clothes, in the fall of 2015, baroque with its pretentiousness would return to fashion, so the rehabilitation of Galliano took place very opportunely. Designers' interest in baroque motifs should shake up the industry, which until recently was focused on minimalism and pragmatic sports style. Baroque is characterized by traditionally “luxurious” colors and materials, ornate patterns, excessive decorativeness: brocade, velvet, jacquard, embroidery or prints imitating tapestry are used. In London, designers from Simone Rosha and Mary Katrantzou (the baroque pattern is even on fur coats and duffle colts) to Erdem and Marques'Almeida took up the interpretation of this style. The latter, which are usually used as the basic material for denim, suddenly showed things from multi-colored jacquard.
Velvet
Velvet is another material that fits perfectly into the actual style of Gothic and Baroque. So, velvet flashed at the beginning in New York at the shows of Marc by Marc Jacobs and Alexander Wang, and now appeared in London. For example, Thomas Tate and Topshop Unique showed velvet trouser suits, referring to the fashion of the 70s. Simona Rocha works with classic black velvet, concentrating on a fancy cut and complex form of things. Giles refer to the XVII century fashion, but they have velvet adjacent to vinyl. Mary Katranza showed velvet platform shoes. Christopher Kane went further than anyone else to work with velvet - he decorated the velvet with lapels and pockets of strict trouser suits and coats, and also showed dresses, fragments on which were carved in the form of silhouettes of girls from red, black and bright blue velvet. Despite the abundance of black velvet in most collections, the greatest potential we see in the things of unusual cut from a combination of velvet in different shades.
Wavy Stand Collar
The shuttlecocks are back, and in 2015 they will be everywhere. They decorate Crop tops, pencil skirts, dresses of different lengths, shirts, bags and even shoes. However, the most interesting thing is the Victorian wavy stand-up collar - a favorite of British Meadham Kirchhoff and Simone Rocha. Victorian collar reads can now be found not only in them. Some of the designers use a wavy collar on shirts and dresses, someone transfers the element to jackets, both denim and in military style. A wavy stand-up collar, like Pierrot, is in the spring collection of Russian designers Nina Donis, as well as in the pre-autumn Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel. Simone Rocha, Erdem and Giles in London and Rodarte in New York were featured in his autumn collections. In the future, we will definitely see such a collar more than once, including in the context of the revival of fashion for the 80s and new wave.
Latex and vinyl
The use of latex and vinyl helps designers to reveal several relevant topics: on the one hand, fetishism and gothic, on the other - aesthetics of the 60s with its interest in futuristic materials. Thomas Tate creates latex long gloves and uses vinyl as a decorative element, decorating his leather goods. Thomas also shows vinyl outlets with a throat in combination with a coat. Jonathan Anderson suggests wearing a vinyl top with a neutral-tone leather skirt. Giles and House of Holland feature black vinyl jackets and short skirts. Ashish, as you remember, pleases with latex red boots. Brand Ashley Williams combines vinyl with pink fur. Even the fairly conservative British designer Emilia Wickstead works with vinyl.
New tweed
The show of the brand Emilia Wickstead, which Kate Middleton and Alex Chang love to wear, was named one of the best at the last London fashion week. The secret of success is that the British woman reinterprets the twee-boucle, which is traditional for the English fashion: she paints it in pink, blue, light beige, sews pencil skirts, dresses on the body without unnecessary details, tops. Another example is Erdem: they decorate tweed items with lace and fringe. A new look at tweed is also interesting in the context of the fact that women's fashion is about to take a course on conservatism and classics. This is confirmed by the latest Marc Jacobs collection, dedicated to Diane Vreeland, composed entirely of sun-skirts on the floor, an hourglass and tweed silhouette, or a grandmother's cardigan in the collection of Christopher Kane. These are things with a touch of "age" and "serious" connotations - it seems that fashion has decided to get rid of infantilism.
60's accessories
The 60s and 70s, which are ubiquitous this year, do not at all mean that you need to dress in retro mode from head to toe - you can limit yourself to suitable accessories. For example, refer to the actual geometry in the 60s. Thus, two British geniuses Jonathan Anderson and Thomas Tate propose to wear jewelry of different geometric shapes together: triangular and round, triangular and square. This technique can definitely be adopted. Also noteworthy are plastic accessories: earrings, chokers and bracelets - which flashed on every second show.
80s-style leather raincoat
In the 80s, cocoon coats (with voluminous shoulders, of course) were sewn by everyone: Azzedine Alaya, Karl Lagerfeld, Thierry Mugler. Surely your mother had such a raincoat too. Now we can say: the return of the 80s is not far off, and some Britons have already begun to rethink the fashion of this era. For example, leather coats were the first in these fashion weeks to introduce KTZ in New York, and in London they were echoed by J.W. Anderson. The modernized version of the eighty-classic classics is characterized by the lack of bedcloths, minimalistic cut and the use of pure colors. Obviously, such a raincoat can be pre-recorded in the wishlist or look for vintage options for flea markets. And most importantly: if you are frightened by the volumetric shapeless cut of the 80s, you can use leather fitted raincoats in the fashion of the 70s. The same Jonathan Anderson prepared both for the fall.