Milan fashion week favourites!

Normally I am not a huge fan of Milan fashion week and struggle to find 5 favourite collections, this time I struggled to ONLY select 5 collections. I'm going to restrain myself and stick to 5 but here is a list of the others I love too:  San Andres Milano, Alberta Ferreti, Ports 1961 and Stella Jean.

I actually loved the colour palette of the SS17 Pucci collection so much that I featured it on instagram as well. It isn't the most inspiring collection for print, but the colours....WOW!

It was the fresh floral prints on white grounds that caught my attention in the Ferragamo collection.

The new Marni collection is just amazing!From the outline floral and abstract prints to the on trend styling of the garments all finished off with a utility twist- I loved it!

I think the Antonio Marras collection might be my favourite from Milan fashion week. It offered a softened version of the new 'eclectic' trend that has taken the SS17 collections by storm(I will be positing about this next week) and combined beautiful loosely coloured hand drawn floral prints with black and white gingham and pale botanical prints.

Etro always seems to make it into my top 5 posts, I think it is mainly because they are consistently good and they have a niche(paisley and 'ethnic' prints) and have really become artisans in that area. Their SS17 collection offered another range of beautiful paisley designs and loose garments.

Milan is now over and I'm trying to get through the Paris collections and organize all the images into a half decent trend report. Hopefully I will have compiled and labelled everything to put into a post at the end of next week. This season I won't be doing colour boards, I've decided just to focus on the prints(this is a print blog after all) and any new shape/trim details that I pick up on. I also have new trend board design layouts so I'm interested to see what you all think of them and hopefully get some feedback! x

London fashion week: collection favourites

My favourites from the London collections...

I love how this heritage brand has completely remade itself. Until fairly recently it was only seen in the outerwear of the upper classes and as rip off market stall caps, but it has completely turned itself around to reach it's current 'could-not-be-more-on-trend' status. One of the main reasons this collection is one of my favourites is probably because there are SO many prints.

I honestly haven't been a huge fan of Erdem's recent collections but this one I LOVED! It actually might be my favourite collection from London fashion week. The relaxed styling, chintz prints, lace up/tie details and tight oriental inspired colour palette made this collection bang on trend.

Acid brights, gingham checks and painterly florals are all popular trends in the SS17 collections and the Peter Pilotto collection combined them all perfectly.

It was mainly the styling of the Sharon Wauchob collection that peaked my interest, I am a huge fan of the long, relaxed pyjama shirt and skirt combination and think this could work perfectly if combined with the 'Dandy robes' prints in the Autumn/Winter 2017-18 PV print trend report(http://textilecandy.blogspot.de/2016/09/premiere-vision-autumnwinter-2017-18.html)

I love how bright the colour palette of this collection is, also really excited about using acid bright embroidery on sheer fabric.

New York fashion week: Collection favourites

I want to do a quick round up of my favourite collections from each fashion week as a bit of a teaser to the actual trend reports so here is the first installment- New York. I would have posted it sooner but completing the Premiere Vision Autumn/Winter 2017-18 print trend report has been my priority(you can check it out here: http://textilecandy.blogspot.de/2016/09/premiere-vision-autumnwinter-2017-18.html)

 I've written a little caption under each board to let you know why I like each collection but will keep these "runway favourite" posts as text free as possible!

I absolutely love how colourful this collection is, giving a nod to the new garish 'eclectic' trend(keep checking the Textile Candy blog to hear more about this trend)without being too overpowering. I also love how the Delpozo collections are consistently smooth and sculptural, you can always tell a Delpozo collection by this signature style and I think that's really important in creating a brand.

Hello Sports luxe!!! Boss women has absolutely nailed the sports aesthetic in this collection with cutout bodycon details, utility pockets and contrast straps and trims. I also love how tight the colour palette is: blue, black, red, green, white....simple and clean.

 

Generally I wouldn't look twice at this small 26 look collection because I am always so print focussed but I chose Adeam for the styling, garment shape and details- they're just so easy and relaxed. The whole collection hints at a lot of the main styling trends for the season(cutout, ties, exposed shoulders, layering) without overpowering you with them.

Always a favourite, I am always keen to see the Nicole Miller collection as it always promises a lot of print. This season is no different, inspired by craftmanship in Panama, it boasts a range of intricate patterns and embroidery.

I have been anticipating a punk comeback for quite a while now and here it is! The Coach collection embodies the perfect combination of hard punk rock and soft translucent romance with sheer layers and floral chiffons combined with studded biker jackets and heavy duty boots.

 

That's all for New York fashion week! London finishes today so I should have another 5 favourites from the London collections for you tomorrow....stay tuned ;) x

 

Premiere Vision Autumn/Winter 2017-18

 HERE IT IS!!!The Textile Candy Premiere Vision trend report for Autumn/Winter 2018, not completed as fast as I would have liked but still completed and up on the blog within1 week of the event...not too bad ;)

Last week, September 13th-15th, Premiere Vision Paris took place and I, along with several thousand other textiles/fashion professionals and students, descended on the Parc des Expositions eager to see what the new fabric mills, design studios and trend forecasters were offering for AW17-18. 

As always I have taken the forecasted print trends shown at PV and amalgamated them to create a smaller collection of boards.Here is the full list of 16 trends given at the trade show-I've given the French names as well as I always feel a bit like the names get a little lost in translation:

+ INHABITED FLOWERS/fleurs habité

+ LITTLE DOTS.../des petits points

+ DECIDEDLY HERRINGBONE/assurément chevron

+ FUNNY ANIMALS/drôles d'animaux

+ GEOMETRIC CONSTRUCTIONS/constructions géometriques

+ STRANGE GLEAMS/luers étranges

+ THICK LINES/à gros traits

+ JAPANESE NIGHTS/nuits Japonaises

+ BOUQUETS IN THE SHADOW/bouquets dans l'ombre

+ GRATING FLOWERINGS/floraisons grinçantes

+ ORIENTAL COMPOSITIONS/compositions à l'orientale

+ DANDY ROBES/peignoir d'homme

+ STYLISED ART DECO/stylisé art déco

+ ALL OVER FLAKES/semis de flocons

+ TO BE COLOURED/à colorier

+ EASTWARD HO!/ à L'Est, lié

As you can see from these titles there is a VERY obvious Eastern/Oriental theme here; delicate florals, dark grounds, silk pyjama patterns, kimono inspired fabrics and art deco geometrics  working together to create an altogether opulent feel. 

While writing this post I have been flicking through the Spring/Summer 2017 runway collections and already there is an obvious movement towards more opulent fabrics(silks and crushed velvets) for SS17 combined with a lot of relaxed pyjama style draping -you can definitely begin to see how this style will work brilliantly with these print trends.

I decided to combine the above trends into 13. I combined "All over flakes" with "Little dots" under the header "Dots and flakes" as I feel they sit well together and can often appear to be the same thin. I also combined "Geometric constructions" with "Decidedly herringbone" under the title "Chevrons and geometry" as I, personally, don't think these two work as stand alone trends and would be better together as they are both quite geometric. One further amalgamation I made was to merge "Inhabited florals" with "Grating flowerings" I will admit that this is partially because I couldn't really understand either of these trends from the fabric samples provided at PV, but I surmised that Inhabited florals were flowers with fill effects/imagery in the flower silhouettes and grating flowerings had a texture layer over the top/a watercolour effect in the petals. Other than combining these boards the only other change I made was to the title of "Eastward, ho!", which I renamed as "Eastbound", translated from the French it means basically the same thing but I just feel like the word "ho" has far too many other connotations nowadays!

So with no further ado here are the boards...

 

I've included a front page with the trend boards this time and they're all formatted as A4 landscape pages so that they can be printed off easily. If anyone uses them for business purposes please let me know in a comment at the bottom of this post, it's great to get feedback when people are finding my trend reports useful. Alternatively, if you do print them off, feel free to tag me on instagram in a photo of the printouts @beckyloisburns

Also keep checking on the Textile Candy blog as I have a pretty awesome Spring/Summer 2017 Runway trend report coming soon ;)

Enjoy x