TRENDS/EVENTS // SPIN EXPO - AUTUMN/WINTER 2016/17 TREND DIMENSIONS . YARNS AND COLOURS

TRENDS/EVENTS // SPIN EXPO - AUTUMN/WINTER 2016/17 TREND DIMENSIONS . YARNS AND COLOURS

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Spin Expo is a leading fibres, yarns, knitted fabrics and knitwear show and will be held next New York, July 21-23, 2015. This show is organized by independent textile specialists in fibers. To attend their show you can pre-register online Spin Expo pre-registration.

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"Dimensions" SPINEXPO A/W 2016/17

Fashion has been living through a time of hype, branding and celebrity endorsement for many years now, resulting in a disposable attitude to design with very little substance or skill behind it, and ultimately bland products.

At SPINEXPO we feel this era is on a downward cycle and with time will become outmoded. There is a growing desire for innovation and invention, looking for individuals who have created breakthrough design concepts and clever new techniques.

This new direction requires a much deeper understanding and skillset as a designer, who needs to have the ability to be more creative and unexpected with their use of colour, yarns, textures and forms creating new dimensions to designs both intellectually and physically.

The move away from glib superficial fashion elements pushes us to look deeper into ideology and creative developments that ultimately have more longevity and take on their own strong personal identity. There is a general direction towards growth and 3 dimensional form, with surfaces and structures being the key elements to consider. New advancements in technical processes from 3d printing to innovative manufacturing methods and enhanced finishes are allowing the body form be more considered and garments become sculptural and have a dimension of their own even without a form inside.

Colours also become dimensional as they react to their fabrication or structure. Therefore A/W 2016/17 colours for SPINEXPO are not seen as flat individual colours with only one level, but in fact our colours are a series of tones as they change and reflect different textures, be it fibre, yarn or structure of the fabric. This added dimension has meant colours have become richer and darker, more sophisticated with a strong emphasis on neutrality. This concept of dimensions looks at the hybrid of fashion and active as well as textures and textiles, from stretch, papers and metals, to lace, leather and plastics, rejecting nothing. Manifesting itself in different contrasts from fabrics that are strong and hold their form to ones that flow and move, whether they are knitted, woven, molded or bonded is irrelevant as they are used together to create a brand new aesthetic that provokes new thinking and adds personality.

SPINEXPO proposes "Dimensions" to design and move forward into AW 2016/17 with, giving greater dimension to the way we think, live and create, adding new dimensions within the product itself.

    EXPLORATION    

    STRUCTURE    

    SPACE    

    REFLECTION    

TRENDS + EVENTS // MUNICHFABRICSTART - SS 2016

TRENDS + EVENTS // MUNICHFABRICSTART - SS 2016

barokah    5:06 AM   

The MunichFabricStart is an international fabric trade fair that holds two fair trades a year features a wide range of textiles, accessories and trims at this exhibition. Their current show for SS 2016 is currently being held Feb 2-4, last day of the show is today.  Below is a preview of their latest trends, go here to view and read up on their latest SS 2016 trend call outs if you're missing the show.

View their five themes that map the trend scenario with editorial for each theme "Oscillating. Detailed information including visuals and trend colors plus relevant Pantone number can be on the color card.

Five themes swing back and forth between diverse and parallel fashion, covers, identities, themes and details - four for women's and men's wear and one for jeans wear.

You can also order their  Spring/Summer 2016 trend catalog and color card online,  here.  

OSCILLATING IDENTITIES
Oscillating means to swing, vibrate, be in movement.
OSCILLATING IDENTITIES leaves static ideas behind and swing between different cultures, forms, worlds, sentiments and perceptions – sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker

    SELF ESSENCE    

Neutral colors form the basis for the balanced, calm play of materials.  Skin and apricot tones cover the fabrics with tender gradations.  Restrained metallic gloss looks elegant in satins or graphic jacquards.  Delaves radiate naturalness.  Peach skin finishes create exciting surfaces for both hand and eye.  Elegance and sportiness play with checks, herringbone and technical jerseys.

    ORIENTAL LABORATORY    

Natural white, beige and sand tones exude a colorful calmness.  The warmth of the orient is felt in orange, yellow and bronze colors.  An elegant depth is added to this spectrum in the form of black and petrol.  Voluminous, grainy and yet floating texture constructions appear as modern unis in cotton/polyamide mixtures.  Lots of creativity appears with structured surfaces.  Heat-embossed polyester-mixtures and bondings make incredible 3D patterns magically appear.   Jacquard and lace gleaming a discreet luxury.

    DREAM PATCHING    

Very soft watercolor tones play with bold retro colors.  Icy blue, rose and lavender nuances meet nautical blue pine green and ruby red.  Romantic patterning creates a dreamy basis with tile motifs, houndstooth and naive jacquards.  Characteristic Chanel surfaces and printed laser cuts create lively structures.  Abstracted rings and sun chair stripes show creativity in marine motifs.  Nets bring a flowing lightness and transparency to the materials.

    PSYCHOTECH JUNGLE    

The focus of Psychotech Jungel is on defamiliarized prints.  Pixels, vegetation, graphic patterns, landscapes: everything gets psychedelically abstracted, distorted, enlarged or blurred.  Intense, sporty colors like orange, red and turquoise meet exotic green and purple.  This palette finds some relaxation with white, graphite, silver and natural wood tones.  Hybrid fabrics are bonded or composed of differing samples.  Technical materials, vinyl and silk make shiny, moving surfaces.  Perforations, sometimes printed, find applications in sporty jerseys, synthetic leather and glued materials.

    DENIM EXTREMES    

An extremely simple color palette of blue tones get completed with important summer casual colors like beige, white and greying pastels.  The material range is even more wide and extreme than in previous seasons.  Super clean materials are just as present as totally bleached-out washes or extremely over dyed indigos.  Wheather flowing or solid, structured or super smooth, extremely stretchy or raw and sturdy, jacquards or 3/1 - everything a denim lover could dream of is here.

TRENDS + EVENTS // TEXWORLD USA + PARIS . A/W 2015-16

TRENDS + EVENTS // TEXWORLD USA + PARIS . A/W 2015-16

barokah    5:22 AM   

Texworld an international trade fair for fabrics, trims and accessories is one of the largest sourcing event in the world for apparel fabric buyers, R&D and product development specialists, designers, merchandisers and overseas sourcing professionals.

Their next shows are scheduled in NYC, NY,  Jan 19-21, 2015 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and in Paris, France, Feb 9-12, 2015 at the Parc des Expositions Paris Le Bourget. Go here for NY and here for Paris to learn more about attending their shows.

Here are some of their current trend information  for the Fall/Winter 2015-16 season and you can download the entire comprehensive, 32 page report in PDF format, here. To view below images larger, select an image and a slideshow will appear.

TEXWORLD IMPULSION

TRENDS + EVENT // PREMIEREVISION . SPRING/SUMMER 2016

TRENDS + EVENT // PREMIEREVISION . SPRING/SUMMER 2016

barokah    5:40 AM   

PREMIEREVISION, the world's premier fabric show will be held on February 10-12, 2015 at the Parc d'Expositions Paris Nord Villepinte. To register online, go to PV's - Registration. Here is a preview of their Spring/Sumer 2016 trends and colors.  You can view their trends and interactive color info, here.

You can find all of the season’s fashion information and themes in the Spring Summer 16 colour-range booklet on sale in their e-boutique, and illustrated in the Première Vision Paris forums. 

Spring summer 16 lets itself speak freely, joyously affirming its creative commitment and greedily welcoming surprise.Certainties and habits are let go of. Exchanges and sharing create a blossoming of ideas. Fake look-alikes delightfully playing on reality and fantasy battle uniformity.

A highly tactile, poetic and sensual season, all freshness and energy, flowery and fruity a season to savor with relish.

It invites fashion to defy convention and move away from entrenched identities, the better to enthusiastically delve into sports, infuse menswear and casual wear with suppleness, sophisticate raw looks and make silhouettes bloom with bright, bursting colour.

IN MOTION

Seizing on new harmonies embodying both energy and well-being, for supple, round fashions whose contours accentuate and follow the body without constraint. Taking a more intimate approach to a sporty spirit, locating the balance between calmness and vitality. Embracing sensual and invisibly techno fabrics with friendly stretch, bouncy and fine fluids, fresh softness, and artificial fleshiness.

Constructing curves around the body, envisioning cuts in 3D, infusing chic looks with a new athleticism, seeing technology as a more personal added-value, and delighting in a virtuoso balance of dynamism, comfort and seduction.

IN ABUNDANCE

Accentuating fullness, enveloping with air, floating and layering to suggest loose lines and free the body of all weight.

Combining transparency and boundless profusion, multiplying layers, spreading decoration, expanding and opening up volumes. Dreaming up a nonchalant, bubbly and slightly futuristic fashion. Injecting a high summer spirit into citywear or red-carpet looks, playing around with the very long or very short, revealing and concealing, giving a fresh look to menswear. Turning to poetic or experimental fantasy, cultivating unknown and appetising fruits and flowers.

IN ESSENCE

Constructing simply, bringing elementary cuts to life through the richness of textures, effacing the body but leaving a perception of it through openings and necklines. Creating hybrids of minimal sportswear and couture luxury, reconciling rigour and sexiness, expressed through highly tactile structures and captivating behaviours. Envisioning long and lean shapes, concise foldings, primitive wrappings, fake-twin assemblies, and decorations with a rudimentary opulence.

    COLORS    

The colors of the range orchestrate encounters between fresh, intense, subtle and sparkling colors.
They reveal a voluptuous neutrality, inviting soothing and biting contrasts.They offer up subtle and explosive duos, mischievous and tasty fake twins, deceptively monochrome lookalikes.They light up the darkness with coldly luminous brights, and underline the primordial power of darks.The range explores colorful new plays on proportions, inventing light and playful alliances of pale tones, and revealing soft and strident duos or multi-tones.

Go here to view their interactive Spring/Summer 2016 color ranges.

TRENDS // MATERIAL PREVIEW - S/S 2016

TRENDS // MATERIAL PREVIEW - S/S 2016

barokah    6:07 AM   

The Material Preview is an event dedicated exclusively to leathers suited for top-end footwear, leather goods, leatherwear, home decor and accessories.  Material Preview aims to supply the leather sector with the tools to study and develop innovation and research on materials to the fullest. Go here to learn more about them.  Their next show is scheduled on January 13, 2015 in Florence, Italy at the Stazione Leopolda, go here to pre-register.

Below is a preview of their Spring/Summer 2016 Fashion and Color Trends where you can view here. Stay tuned for a comprehensive guide subdivided into four key themes. 

TRENDS + EVENTS // INDIGO SHOW + PROMOSTYL S/S 2016 TRENDS

TRENDS + EVENTS // INDIGO SHOW + PROMOSTYL S/S 2016 TRENDS

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The Indigo show is a creative textile and surface design show which shows 3 times a year the top international design studios, bookshops and trend studios.  The show provides designs for prints, embroideries, knits, appliques, jacquards and transfer papers, addressing all segments of the fashion and home markets. 

The next show is scheduled in New York at the Premiere Vision NY, January 13-14, 2015.  To learn more and register for the show, go here.

Below is a preview of the Spring/Summer 2016 season, courtesy of Promostyl a trend service and creative consulting company.  You can learn more about them here and to set up a meeting to preview their service, you can email them at info@promostylamericas.com.

TRENDS + EVENT // MUNICHFABRICSTART - A/W 2015-16 + S/S 2016

TRENDS + EVENT // MUNICHFABRICSTART - A/W 2015-16 + S/S 2016

barokah    8:01 AM   

The MunichFabricStart is an international fabric trade fair that holds two fair trades a year features a wide range of textiles, accessories and trims at this exhibition. Their next show for S/S 2016 is Feb 2-4, go here to register.  

You can also order their Spring/Summer 2016 trend catalog and color card online, go here.

Below is a preview of their latest trend A/W 2015-16 textile trends.  To view the interactive collections for each trend themes, go here….

FIRST TEXTILE TRENDS AUTUMN.WINTER 15/16

For autumn/winter 15/16 the following five textile trend themes are defined: POWER CLASSICS, HIGH FUNCTIONS, COSY OUTDOORS, FANCY DELIGHTS und HYBRID PRINTS. They faces clarity, high-tech, normalcy and escapade in a progressive implementation. 

   POWER CLASSICS   

There is an enormous longing for established classics in terms of both substance and style. Themes such as normcore, 1980s sports, 1990s streetwear, and Bauhaus satisfy this desire for more simplici- ty. Of particular focus are neoprene sweatshirts, tech jerseys, quilted chevrons, bonded wool patterns, and classic printed patterns such as houndstooth and Glen plaid.

   HIGH FUNCTIONS   

Extremes present both a challenge and an inspiration at the same time. Futuristic, tech-savvy, active, searching, and functional are the verbal drivers of these highly technical trends. Thermo-sensory co- lors, air cells, integrated measurement sensors, and chrome and rainbow finishes augment fashion and textiles. Padded mesh, nylon, and stretch fabrics are graphically enhanced with polygonal, photo- realistic or 3D prints.

   COSY OUTDOORS   

Pure nature! Wrapped up in cuddly materials like fur, down, cordu- roy, fustian, velour and chunky knits. Comfortable, sensory tailoring in the boyfriend cut underscores the casual esprit, made up to date with waist lacing and high boots. English plaids, Harris tweed and traditional folklore patterns blend with nature-inspired surfaces which imitate materials like marble, wood, and moss.

   FANCY DELIGHTS   

Extravagance and humor, dandy and magic, beauty and gourmet, fetish and design, baroque and disco, bow ties and tuxedos. This pursuit of the most beautiful and the best brings together glitter and jacquard, fur and sheepskin, lacquer and gold, fringe and leopard print, lamé and yak, flora and fauna (-prints).

   HYBRID PRINTS   

The autumn/winter prints 15/16 are dominated by progressive variants from realistically natural and graphical futuric motives. Often in combination with spatial dimentionality. Natural inspirations begin with landscapes, mountains and waves - futhermore wood, marble, flower and leaf impressions are used up to abstructed leopards, snakes and moths. Polygonal patterns, camouflages and patchwork represent modern geometrical and organical pictures.

TRENDS // ECLECTIC TRENDS - A/W 2016/17 GLOBAL COLOR RESEARCH . SELF EXPRESSION - PART III

TRENDS // ECLECTIC TRENDS - A/W 2016/17 GLOBAL COLOR RESEARCH . SELF EXPRESSION - PART III

barokah    5:54 AM   

From our FV contributor, Gudy Herder of Eclectic Trends who is based in Barcelona working as an Interior Stylist, Trend Observer and Trainer.  Her website Eclectic Trends is full of interior and trend inspirations,   http://eclectictrends.com.  

Don't forget to also sign up for her Moodboarding Workshops at the following locations if you're in town in London Nov 8th/9th and in Barcelona Nov 14th, you can find additional info on her site.

Dear Fashion Vignette readers, 

it’s Gudy again from Eclectic Trends and I am writing today the third chapter about my trend presentation I did for Global Color Research in London. This theme is interesting since it’s all about self-expression and the way we like to customize our objects such as fashion or furniture pieces. It just feels good to be able to identify with your very own style. I hope you enjoy the report and feel free to drop me a comment, I’d like to love to hear your opinion.

Warm regards, Gudy

This is already the third part of my AW 2016/17 trend presentation for Global Color Research and Trend Talk at the Meet The Blogger event in Barcelona. I hope you enjoyed my last AW 2016/17 trend post WONDERLAND ( here ) and SCANNED (here), which had been the favorite among my readers. I’d love to hear your opinion too.

This theme is about SELF EXPRESSION.

Its inspiration comes from the 80s where Ettore Sottsass being in his 60s gathered a group of really young designers and architects to create a non conformist approach with bright, colorful and quite shocking pieces. This was the beginning of Memphis Design.

COLLAGE reflects optimism and has a playful and energetic feel encouraging you to cut and paste your own style. It’s an artsy thinking.

Customization is huge, the idea of adding your own brush strokes on your garments becomes very appealing. Or you can build up and stack your own furnitures creating personal designs (i.g. Lago).

You have graphics such as dots, grids, stains but all very irregular are keywords here.

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