Written by Tania Braukämper on 10 Feb 2012
Colour can't be touched, but it can touch us. It can't be felt, but it can change the way we feel. Try describing a colour and you can only really describe the things that we associate with it. But despite not being a tangible, physical thing, like our clothes or our shoes are, colour is key to the world of fashion. It's one of the visual clues that helps define a season.
Fall 2012 is no exception to the rule. And while the temperature is one of the things regularly driving the moods we portray through colour, the colour trends for fall 2012 aren't all cloudy greys or cheerless blues. If the colour trend predictions are anything to go by, our wardrobes will be filled with traditional fall tones punctuated by optimistic pops of bright colour.
Read on for the full report.
Written by Tania Braukämper on 22 Nov 2011
Californian forecast agency Design Options have released their predictions for the colour trends for fall 2012 for the young men’s market. There are four key themes: Classic Luxe, a soft yet polished palette; Cool Contrast, centred around icy blue hues; Big Chill, which takes in brighter pops of mustard and brick tones; and finally Street Wise, a palette of earthy browns, camels and greys. View …
Written by Tania Braukämper on 15 Nov 2011
For a young women’s contemporary market, Californian forecasters Design Options see the colour trends for fall 2012 as moving in four distinct themes. House of Style brings a palette of muted pastels and soft, neutral tones; Retro Future is deeply nostalgic, vibrant, and evocative; Arctic Expression contrasts the extremes of fire and ice; and finally Print Works sees a palette of rich, jewel-like and earthy …
Written by Tania Braukämper on 11 Nov 2011
As a specialist in the manufacture and marketing of manmade fibres, Lenzing’s colour trend predictions focus on textiles like tencel and viscose. We won’t necessarily see these particular palettes extend into organic fabrics like wool or cotton. They do, however, provide a good forecast of spring 2012 colours that can be expected to make their way across manufactured textiles.
Written by Tania Braukämper on 10 Nov 2011
As 2012′s fashion trends move closer, we can begin to predict, in greater detail, the colour palette that will be shaping our autumn / winter 2012 wardrobes. TFL have released their predictions, dividing their fall 2012 colours into “wearing” and “living” – the former category relating to garments, footwear and accessories (with particular emphasis on leather), and the latter to interior design.
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 8 Nov 2011
While all of us have already been privy to the key spring 2012 fashion collections, it’s easy to misjudge the season’s trends based solely upon what the dominant players are doing. So today we bring you an insight into colours for spring 2012 whose point of origin lies outside the dominant four fashion cities. These are colour trends for Spring / Summer 2012 from Copenhagen, and …
Written by Tania Braukämper on 21 Oct 2011
What is Scandinavian design, and more importantly, what does the future hold for it? From footwear to furniture, we wanted to find out how current brand leaders in the field perceive Scandinavian design in the present day; how they approach it; how they balance market needs and trends with ingrained, decades-old principles; and what the future holds. To find the answers, we headed to Copenhagen, Denmark. Read the full report after the break.
Written by Tania Braukämper on 5 Oct 2011
Cementing what we’ve been saying about warm, bright colours sitting against shades that you might expect of a year’s cooler months, Pantone have released their report on the colour trends for next year’s spring / summer. The report names 10 top colours that will influence women’s spring 2012 fashion, touching on precisely the types of optimistic citrus and soft floral hues we’ve been seeing all …
Written by Angel Millar on 7 Jul 2011
Denim is so integral to today’s fashion industry that it’s difficult to imagine it getting any bigger. But, it is. In fact, denim looks set to become an increasingly significant aspect of fashion over the next few years, and, possibly, even over the next few decades. In a recent press release, Premiere Vision announced it had “broken a new attendance record” for its Paris “Denim” …
Written by Daniel P Dykes on 30 Jun 2011
They’re the colours for now and they’re the colours for next season. And between now and then, just about every label and retailer will offer something up in a burnt shade of colour that sits somewhere between red and yellow. That means that this is a burnt colour trend is inclusive of orange, a burnt hue that Acne have picked up on.
