Season Themes | Men's | RTW and Accessories: Three key menswear trends for Fall/Winter 2010-11, all include color palettes. Gangs of NY leads with references to 19th century crime bosses and gangsters. Road Warriors offers a hard and aggressive combatant aesthetic. Scrappy Revloutionaries, with its basis in making good in hard times, balances out the trend report. Presented onInfomat, courtesy of Fashion Snoops.



Fashion Snoops Forecast Report

KEY TRENDS, WOMEN'S
F/W 2010-11

Season Themes | Women's | RTW and Accessories: Two key trends, which include color palettes, are displayed for Fall/Winter 2010-11. References to Hitchcock's female heroines embrace 40's austerity and elegance. While a literal translation of combating the rough economy is presented with a continuing warrior-like aesthetic, Joan of Arc comes back in the scene... Presented on Infomat, courtesy of Fashion Snoops.

Fashion Snoops Forecast Report

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TRENDS WINTER 2010/11
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

The crucial need of co-existing between nature and urban landscapes is reflected in the color pallets and the stories from where they come: urban concrete and formal darks meet nature’s mid-tones and bright shades. 

Eco-fashion, lo-fi, laboratory-grown fabrics, food fashion, fusing product and garment, beetroot-dying, victimless leather, bone ivory, up-cycling and all the other experiments concentrating on environment issues, are so important; some ideas will eventually end up as valid solutions to problems we fight with, some are indispensable because of the discussion they raise. 

Solutions are imperative to solve the paradox of the fashion industry obsessed by the nonstop change and the vital demand of sustainability. 

The focus has moved from pure aspect to content, with everything this brings along in terms of questions.
Finishing and added functions are areas still to be explored and bringing in new, complex and fascinating elements.

Craft techniques are reinterpreted and completed by using the newest technology.

Warmth, comfort, caring, reassuring, thoughtfulness are terminologies to have in mind when developing fabrics for the autumn and winter of 2010/11.

Stahl’s colourful forecast for Autumn/Winter 2010/2011

Stahl’s colourful Fashion Colour Forecast for Autumn/Winter 2010/2011 should brighten these two seasons, especially for those living in the Northern Hemisphere, where, once the leaves have fallen, it can be a pretty colourless time of the year. The forecast comes in two forms, an eye-catching poster and a more detailed booklet.

The poster features a grey-eyed blonde dressed in a bright yellow scarf and shoes, red blouse and purple leggings that will brighten any office. Below the photograph is the usual series of colour swatches, grouped under six colour groups. 

These colour groups are repeated in the Colour Forecast booklet, which leads with Alan Kay’s quotation “The best way to predict the future is to invent it”. The theme that follows says that morphing the past and the present, the old and the new, leads to a creative and innovative future that is help by new technology. This idea is demonstrated throughout the booklet which uses a fascinating and extensive selection of photographs to illustrate the thoughts behind each chapter.

This year the colour selection covers the whole spectrum. Almost any colour in the rainbow can be found somewhere, even it is toned down a little for winter. There are even one or two metallic shades to brighten playful fashions.

Starting with a look back at history, “Nobility Code” is the first group and within it “Strictly Class” are the colours that give the past a modern look of class and quality. It’s not necessarily old world, an era of the grand house; dashing modern fashions need these colours too if they are to be really striking. The colours? Here is everything from rubber through sable, the colours of red wine and grapes, classic pale and dark blues and pineneedle green.

Playfulness, evening glamour, and cool modern fashion, call the group “Experimental Existentialism” to give an air of excitement, Stahl has a range of metallic colours to suite the occasion. “Metallic Rhapsody” is a world of its own. Metallics glint under the lights of an autumn or winter evening, always catching the eye. Here are the metallic effects played out on silver, gold, copper browns, gunmetals and the almost black colours of the night, leading from antique shimmer to theatrical flashes of light that unhesitatingly brighten up the shades.

“Asian Fascination” immediately calls to mind the colours and magic of the Far East. Think of the peoples of Asia, the way they dress, the way they move and the way they perform and dance. The effects are hypnotic as ancient and modern cross and recross in both landscape and townscape. This is reflected in the “Hypnotic Shadow Play” group. Here pale khaki, pale dusky pinks and frosty greys interplay with dark colours, ebony, puce, jet black and red earth.

These days, no colour palette seems complete without references to history, without harking back to the natural dyes of medieval times and earlier. Grand living was one aspect but in this sector of Stahl’s colour grouping, “Smash of Styles” uses “History Brights” to create a reminders of days of early exploration, travel and settlement. Sailing ships opened up the New World and intrepid  traders forged the silk routes between Europe and the Far East. Earthy colours cross the spectrum of cinnamon through browns, wines and reds into deep mauves and dark navy blues. They were perfect for the fashions of the time, and now they are perfect for creating new fashions that mirror the old.

The taste of adventure and the wilderness inspire the search for ancient treasure, the search for the “Forever Natural”. Inevitably thoughts turn to warm neutral shades, the “Treasured Neutrals” that remind us of the countryside in autumn and winter as the green grass tones down to dusky green and dusky orange, the ploughed fields look like dull gold, chestnut and the dark brown of forest night. In the cool colours, grey and light brown are a reminder of stone walls and buildings out on the moors while winter white tones with these shades while perhaps reminding us the spring will not be far away.

Finally Stahl gives “Future-Retro Action” a truly exciting look into the future. With Autumn and Winter on the scene, colours are aptly named “Freeze Up”. There’s snow white, of course, and then a range of cold colours such as dapple grey, fieldspar green, and silver lake blue through to jet black. Here the metallic shade is white pearl-metallic, it’s slightly cream hue making snow white seem even whiter.

The range of colours in this forecast is so varied that there has to be something for everyone. Will the cheerful colours help us to put the present economic problems behind us and give us something for the high street to call us back into the shops? Hopefully “Yes” and hopefully these are the colours to attract the customers.

TRENDS SPRING SUMMER 2010
OPTIMISTIC FUTURE Tones deriving from Plants, Minerals,Vegetables and Dirt are creating a unique beauty.We’ll find unnatural looking colors created from natural dye developments such as “baby indigo” and “madder red”. Colors take on fantastic high shine, super gloss lacquer and patents for pale and earth tones. Colors become more saturated with a clean impact for maximum contrasts and filled tones. Contrast can be wild and furious, stark or slight. Statement: bright colours for ‘one colour’ styling. Brights are filled with light.
Bright deep darks can deceive the eye. Urban concrete tones become new neutrals raw and textured layers. Textiles are developed into still more diversity and specified by the end use of them. Blends are becoming more sophisticated: cellulose fibers will – along with being on their own and with stretch blends - be blended with wool (which has finally been recognized for summer-use) silk, linen and ramie.Along with this classic way of ‘textile-thinking’ many more will be explored and lead into really  new approaches of thinking and production embracing the consumer as part of the creation process.The performance of the fabric is the key word in terms of function - breathability, absorbability, temperature adjustment etc. - maintenance – cleaning (green laundry), shape steadfast – and durability, just to mention a few parameters.  Just as yarns will be still finer and have more refined performance properties thanks to developing of spinning processes, finishing is still growing in importance and processes are refined and improved, new techniques invented. The overall question of interest in the textile production is how to take care of our environment: Ecological is no longer just a fashion word!

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The synergism of Earth / Concrete /Vegetation / Mineral.
Imperfect and unique beauty of the invincible nature.The intelligence of reflective and uncomplicated qualities. Choices are serene. Unnatural looking colors from natural dye developments such as mud and “baby indigo”. Surfaces are sublimely texturized inspired of the immense inspiration of nature.All textured elaborations are welcomed.The honesty of the materials, skin-loving fibers to be trusted – because we deserve it!   

Exotic. Rich.Tribal. Artistic.
Colors are abstracted from nature. Tones that contrast with urban aesthetics. All that embellish - jaquard, embroidery - interacting with grainy matt woven fabrics.
Colors and ornaments inspired by dynamic culture clashing. African, native american and urban folklore mixed in a visionary vortex.´Textile to be mixed, clashed and
revisited in a blur culture connotation – a mirror of our world!

Mysterious. Cutting edge. Luxurious. Futuristic. Lunar. Mercurial. Academic. Light enhanced, reflective. Glazed surfaces bestow bright deepness to the colours. Understated and confident luxury. Obsessive research for textiles. Drape. Smooth.Wrap. Mellifluous. Almost excessive sophistication - the perfection of air!

Intense techno colours express happiness and life. White light and whited brights. Full tones glowing on saturated materials. Transparency – batiste and organza feelings - gives light to the colours. Easy, pure surfaces that allow the play of prints and applications of entertaining elements - towards a convincing and joyful future!

Textured layers becomes seductive and tempting. Materials are solid and classic, constructions fitted, qualities and beauty - as once upon a time! 
Precision of the embellishments of the past.
Powdered tones filtered through aging but not shabby!
Contrasts are subtle and minimized.
Sensing the past that has absorbed the coulors.

                                                                                                  Information provided by Lenzing AG

Lenzing AG is a German fiber company specializing in tencel and modal fibers.  For more information, check out their website at www.lenzing.com.

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