TRENDS A/W 2015-16 By Rosanna Purkiss
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“A trend can be emotional, intellectual and even spiritual.” The trend Forecaster’s Handbook By Martin Raymond
p5-6 prieview of the trend
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is it an upcoming trend?
p8 Style Picks
CONTENTS PAGE p9-12
Great
lengths
p13-14 What is it? p15-16
Hemline
changes
p17-18 colour trends
#1
Sandals in Autumn?! Welcome to ‘Swinter’ Dressing... A broad trend with many different style involved, designed to wear garments The seasons these days aren’t so defined to how do we decide what to wear if one day you wake up and it’s hailing qith winds up to 80mph thena few hours later, the sun is blazing hot with bright blue skies? England weather makes it very hard so ‘Swinter Dressing has been addressd.
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UK Weather: English heat waves ‘up to 22 times more likely’ due to climate change... Studies conclude climate change will cuase less severe winters...
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SWINTER DRESSING
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“This is because although in the northern hemisphere we are supposedly experiencing peak summer, there have been moments this past week when the weather has been chillier than the temperature in those Sacramento breakfast TV studios, where Cara Delevingne’s gently sarcastic quips last Friday, crashed thunderously against the rocks of American earnestness. Not coincidentally, there have also been many moments in the past few days when I have found myself returning to the Whistles website, where the woolly sandal has recently appeared.”
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POTTY ON PONCHO’S
While keepng the length for A/W seasons the sleeveless touch keeps it wearable for warmer weathers, while of course showing off your beautiful top underneath.
Wrapping a poncho around yourself will help to add on a layer to keep you warm, aswell as letting in the breeze for a warmer temperature.
SLEEVELESS COAT
KNIT HOT BOOT-CUT The winter look shoe, with a touch of summer sandle. Perfect for all seasons. Showing a little flesh helps a warmer season to be embraced. 5
Spring/Summer silhouettes in the garments to wear when warm. But knitted to ensure warmth is maintained when seasons/weather dramatically changes.
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So WHY is this an upcoming Trend
Style Picks
Are you waking up, looking our your window to beautiful blue skies and warm sunshine, then strolling through your day getting more and more cold, observing the sudden chage in weather to grey clouds with light drizzle, or in some cases, heavy rain? Marie Claire have the Styles:
This is such a varied and broad Trend for 2015/16, however one which is going to be around throughout all seasons, no doubt about it. With Climate Change (previously mentioned) the style decisions of the public are going to be very difficult.With very unpredictable weather at the moment, we all have to have clothing to support the sudden changes we are faced with and this trend does it all.
Black Flats £175 Miu Miu Sunglasses £225 Topshop Suede Jacket £150
Talitha Maxi Dress £854 Isabel Marant Ankle Boots £585
Zara Khaki Jacket £69 Asos Hoops £8 Whistles Skirt £85 Nike Trainers £65
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GREAT LENGTHS
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Meet Fashion’s New Favorite Silhouette
#2
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“Is
the dress-
over-pants, that most maligned of
’90s
sartorial
residue, due for
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another comeback?” 12
There are many fashionable women walking through the streets with an oversized jumper with a midi skirt, or ribbed tunics with fluid trousers. These women are out to bring a slimming touch to this trend The result is an effortless and elegant effect.
For Autumn, it’s all about a slimmer silhouette and here are a few tips when rocking the long on long trend: - Varying layers work well. If you are wearing a tunic over a pair of trousers, you can complete the look with a cropped jacket. - Sometimes it’s silhouettes, the create the right two layers. This light colours.
not just about marrying the two colours matter, and you want to level of contrast between the look works best with simple,
- For a more interesting look introduce texture to the styling with warm knits and silk.
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“A “Hemlines are all over the place, Very much like the stock market,” Burke, president of Robert Burke Associates in New York, said in an interview. In the 20th century, dresses crept up for the first time around 1915, during World War I, said Daniel James Cole, a fashion historian. Around the same time, the U.S. economy expanded for 44 months, starting in December 1914, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. “The hem went up to mid-calf,” said Cole, a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. “That was radical, because the hemline of the 19th century was to the shoe.” The prosperous “roaring twenties” saw the emergence of flappers, who provoked anger by bobbing their hair, smoking in public and wearing knee-length dresses. The stock market’s crash of 1929 was a defining moment for the economy and skirt heights, Cole said. Both plummeted, with hemlines below mid-calf. The S&P Index dropped 86 percent from Sept. 6, 1929, through July 8, 1932, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News.
HIGHER HEMLINES
KNEE LENGTH
A decade later, on the eve of the World War II, the U.S. economy entered an 80-month expansion which lasted through February 1945, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. During this time, knee-length skirts became ubiquitous, though the trend “had more to do with conserving fabric for the war effort than with the economy,” Cole said. As a reaction against wartime’s austerity and fabric rations, Christian Dior’s first fashion collection in 1947 offered luxurious silhouettes with full skirts reaching below mid-calf. “The hemlines dropped by 10 inches,” said Cole. The S&P fell 28 percent between May 29, 1946, and May 19, 1947. During the 1960s, the U.S. economy grew for 106 months, making it the secondlongest expansion between 1857 and today, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. Hemlines reached their highest. 15
move away from
heavy shapes brings
the body back into play, with fashion
that glides over the silhouette” 16
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TRENDS
COLOUR
A/W 2015
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