Rose quartz PANTONE 13-1520 and Serenity PANTONE 15-3919 are the colors of 2016 according to Pantone, world-renowned authority on color. This time I really like Pantone’s color choice despite ‘What color is in fashion this year?‘ is one of the most nonsense questions by ‘common people’ to fashion insiders, and considering that in 2016 I’m tired of hearing that fashion trends can be simply based on a mathematical algorithm coded with the images of the catwalks. For the first time they are 2 and I really like them, especially when matched together like in the Ermanno Scervino Spring Summer 2016 collection…

Floral? For Spring? Groundbreaking!   Every time Meryl Streep pronounces this line in the movie The Devil Wears Prada, she makes laugh all the fashionistas who love her sarcastic role of Miranda Priestly. Needless to add that fashion bloggers “tragically” revive this joke once a year in March, when spring trend reports sprouting on the web. A spring or summer without flowers seems to be inconceivable for fashion designers. This post, however, is part of a winter trend report series, so why do I speak about flowers and the spring? Let me explain it. The scene from “The Devil wears…

Venus de Milo and Marilyn Monroe, two hourglass silhouette icons La Venere di Milo e Marilyn Monroe, due icone della silhouette a clessidra We are close to the end of our journey through the autumn winter 2012 trends. Today we continue with the charm of the curves, in fact, despite the androgynous trend, even the hourglass silhouette has been stated as the queen of the season. We saw it in New York and Paris, but also in Milan it made out just fine. It’s not all about sculpture clothes and wasp waist, but also wide layering slightly tight at the waist…

In the film and fashion industries, there are many divas who made history by wearing male suits. You can think about the libertine and eternal rivals Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, or the casual-androgynous Katharine Hepburn, not to mention iconic garments such as the tuxedo for women by Yves Saint Laurent (mid 60s) and the destructured pant suit by Giorgio Armani (80s). Although these examples seem to belong to the past, from the catwalks we can definitely say that the androgynous look is one of the Autumn Winter 2012 trends. There are many variations and styles for the daywear such…

Sculpture dresses are definitely one of the main fall-winter 2012 trend. Minimalistic attire with plastic shapes and geometric volumes. The jacket cuffs seem to be inflated, reshaping the shoulders line, enlarging the proportions and creating a strong contrast between the slim pants or skirts. Manuel Facchini at Byblos is certainly the “standard-bearer” of this trend presenting a space-woman with a sort of metamorphic clothes, mixing classic soft lines and high tech, edgy shapes. Cuts, seams and applications let Gaetano Navarra experience a new concept of space with exquisite baroque floral scrolls, while Marco De Vincenzo uses white sculptural cuts to…

Greta Garbo in “Anna Christie” 1929 Forget the rebellious mood of the biker jackets or the feticism of Jean Paul Gaultier and Donatella Versace. The leather for this Autumn Winter 2012 will be synonymous of comfortable fit. The silhouette of the leather clothes is wide, softened and even draped as a lightweight silk. Stilish examples from the cinema come into mind as well as the waterproof leather jacket worn by Greta Garbo in “Anna Christie” (1929) or the dangerous charm of Glenn Close covered by a soft black leather trench coat in “Fatal Attraction” (1987), not to mention the pre-fetish…

The Gold Rush is not just a Charlie Chaplin movie (1925) inspired by the American golden researchers of the XIX century, but also one of the main Autumn Winter 2012 trends. Actually, it is not so strange that in times of economic crisis, the fashion designers propose luxuries and extravagances, so why not a total golden outfit? As Carmen Kass said in an old tv spot for the J’Adore perfume by Christian Dior, “La vie n’est pas noir et blanc, la vie est d’or” (Life is not black and white, life is golden). La Febbre dell’Oro non è solo un…

The tour through the autumn winter 2012 trends is going on. Today is the turn of the Houndstooth pattern, also known as Pied-de-poule, made of 8 wool wires recreating the stylized shape of a chicken’s foot. This typical male pattern has been proposed on classic pieces such as long coats and lady’s suits, in combination with Glen plaid or revisited with graphic effects. Continua il tour attraverso i trend della prossima stagione autunno inverno 2012. Oggi è il turno del Pied-de-poule, il pattern di lana a 8 fili che ricrea la forma stilizzata di una zampa di gallina. Fantasia tipicamente maschile,…

Green is one of the main colors of the fall winter 2012 women collections. It has been presented in all its shades, especially dark, and once appeared on double breasted jackets with large gold buttons, it inevitably gave rise to the “military uniforms trend”. On the catwalks there were several women commanders, who didn’t renounce to their femininity matching the uniforms to intangible silk blouses and long fluttering skirts. Uno dei colori che padroneggia sulle passerelle femminili autunno inverno 2012 è sicuramente il verde. Presentato in tutte le nuance, soprattutto scure, inevitabilmente da origine ad un altro trend quando si poggia…