When Anja Rubik, Natasha Poly, and Lily Donaldson all headed down the catwalk during Milan Fashion Week we realised there was one key look that would influence 2009 fashion trends above all others. Sure to become a staple for fashionisers everywhere it’s the Bohemian Luxury fashion trend.
What is it?
It’s a luxury take on a bohemian look. Part peasant, part Cossack, part sex-goddess rock chic. And it’s here for the colder months of 2008/2009 – largely thanks to an outstanding collection by Frida Giannini for Gucci’s Fall (Autumn) / Winter 2008/2009 women’s collection and men’s collection.
Looks from Gucci, Naeem Khan, and Anna Sui
Of course, 2009′s Bohemian Luxury fashion trend has been a long time coming. With its most recent origins in the boho trend, it’s strong gypsy and folk overtones mean that it might be the perfect personification of the foho trend.
That would be selling it short though.
While it is folk-inspired, and it is bohemian, it is also so much more. It has its roots in traditional folk elements – particularly Russian ones – but it fuses in luxury elements and rock-chic attitude.
The Key Elements:
- Billowy white peasant shirts
- Fringed boots
- Folk-inspired tooled leather pieces
- Embroidery and paisley prints
- Charm / coin belts and jewellery
- Luxurious fur or fur-trimmed pieces
- Fringed long skinny scarves
- Bed hair and smudged smoky eye-makeup
Get the Bohemian look
Kate Moss for Topshop holds steady to the end (4 Nov 2010)
Alessandra Ambrosio inspires your festival choices
Anja Rubik takes on Jimi Hendrix inspired fashion
Herchcovitch Fall 2010: embellished bohemian
Dree Hemingway: bohemian traveller
Russian regality in Flair Italy, July 2009
Elle Macpherson bohemian again in Gucci boots
Alexa Chung in the Foho / Bohemian Luxe Trend
Mischa Barton bohemian and military trends
Take Inspiration From:
- 70s rock icons Anita Pallenberg and Marianne Faithful
- Victor Hugo’s Esmeralda
- Jane Seymour’s Solitaire in Live and Let Die
- Traditional Hussar and Cossack dress
2009 Fashion Trends
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