The Blood of McQueen

Lee McQueen’s last collection. A lot of velvet and especially the red one are used. And this spread to D&G, Alexander Wang, Altuzarra, and Zac. I can predict the blood of McQueen will flowing in the next season.

Gothic Queen

Fur-nista

Are you a Fur-nista? If yes, this winter you can enjoy wearing huge fur on your body! On shoulders? On the head? On legs or on the whole body? Enjoy the outfits with Channel, Lavin, Marc Jacob , Michael kors, Versace and MMM! They combine fur smartly.

Oversized Outwear

The oversized, unsymmetrical outer wears hit in this season.  I especially like Celine one! How about you?

In the Name of Army

Want to get the best military outer wears for this winter? Burberry, Fendi, Junya Watanabe, Moschin cheap and chic, Top shop unique and Twenty8Twelve…… from high brand to high street fashion, you can easily pick up one on the runway!!

Floral Garden

Continue with SS10, flower prints going in this season with no doubt. Among all, Christopher Kane would probably be my perfect choice!

Cut-outs Under Bust

Cut-outs under bust is my favorite trend. The style makes women look so sexy and at the same time trendy and gorgeous. I think Alexander Wang, Preen, Julien Mcdonald, Miu Miu and Prada all did a very good job!

In a Kaleidoscope

The Complicated and repeated pattern outfits which make you like you are situated in a kaleidoscope! Make up and dress up with Proenza Schouler, Tsumori Chisato, Givenchy, Anna Sui, Etro or Basso and broke now!

Color is one of the most important design element and every seasons, companies pay a huge amount of money try to invent new color or to stay with the color trend. And in this post, we explore some more about color, like generators, or color research tool.

Color Wheel

To understand color, you need to under the color wheel first

In the color wheel, we have 2 formula formed:

Analogous colors – any three colors which are side by side on a 12 part color wheel, such as yellow-green, yellow, and yellow-orange. Usually one of the three colors predominates.

Complementary colors – any two colors which are directly opposite each other, such as red and green and red-purple and yellow-green. In the illustration above, there are several variations of yellow-green in the leaves and several variations of red-purple in the orchid. These opposing colors create maximum contrast and maximum stability.

Color Mode (Spot color, RGB, CMYK……)

This is one of the technical terms that many fashion designers get confused.

For simplification, we can classify the color into 2 categories: Screen and Pigment

For screen, a very wide range of color can be displayed

• RGB
• CMYK(generated, not 100% exactly with the real pigment)
• Spot Color(generated, not 100% exactly with the real pigment)
• HSV
• Lab Color

Still, the screen can’t be display some kind of color, like florescence and luminous color

For pigment, we have

• Spot color, which is formed by mixing different chemical (PANTONE or some other color palette)
• CMYK, very common in normal color-printed, mixing Cyan, magenta, yellow and black by dots to form different color

So, we normally use RGB color mode when displaying on the screen, and CYMK, spot color for printout, and spot color for textile.

Color Trend Posts [Updated 15/02/10]

Fashiontribes

Fashion Trendsetter

Color Sizzle

Fashionising

SICO

Color Research

Idee

Select a color, and it can find the respective photo for you.

Color Generator

4096 Color Wheel

Color Explorer

Color Hunter

Big Huge Labs: Color Palette Generator

Color Blender

Color Scheme Designer

DeGraeve

Color Wizard

Color Jack

ColorMunki

Colorlovers

ColoRotate

kuler

Stripe Generator

Aviary

COPASO

If you have any more color resources, please let me know.

Honestly, the SS 10 RTW is quite boring to me, with digital print still going good (the best, I really say the best, is the engineer print by McQueen), some trend are evolving  like fully denim-ize and the raw edgy. Here come the highlight of the SS 10 Trend:

Fully Digital

With the technologies allowance, the digital print can be the best option under this economic recession period. The highlight are the engineer print by McQueen and the fluid print from the up and coming Mary Katrantzou.

Jeans Factory

Denim is one of the best fabric available for its durability, stylish finishing, cheap, never-die stylish…. I am glad to see it’s in full dress. I am not surprise to see they will be seen in every main boutique store in large amount this coming spring.

Fluid Drape

Every time I see some style like this, I feel like seeing students’ work, I remembered we were doing stuff like that when we are in year 1 and the outfit is hard to dress. But I like how Burberry Prorsum and Gabriele Colangelo handle the draping and make them look awesome! This is the difference.

Inside Out

In Paris, we have Dior, in Milan, we have Dolce & Gabbana, in London, we have Christopher Kane, and NY, we have Marc Jacob. It is interesting to see how the designers bring the lingerie element into their design. I can’t say, but is this trend can be seen next season? Longing…

Pants Hole

Finally, we get some pants design, please keep going guys, I really love the Gareth’s one, subtly blend the his famous stripe to the pants. I predict these pants will be popular in store this spring.

Summer Sport

“When you are stuck in your work, go out and play some sport.” my parents always tell me. Yup, I think the designers have this ideas too, when we are in the midst of the economic meltdown, why don’t go out and relax and make some fun. Thanks Hermes, I love the tennis cardigan.

Striky Stripy

The stripe can be seen in many show this season, not in their usual form, but they turn into different style they as the form of stripe. It is one of the long lasting trend and I think we will keep seeing stripe evolving in the future.

Summer Leather

The global warming turn the weather upside down, who say we can’t have a cold spring, and yup, at that time, the leather seems to be the most stylish option. Celine does a great job on this, it look like a classic.

Raw Edgy

In the 90s, there was Martin Margiela, and now, Lanvin already used this style as their signature finishing. And we have Prada, Fendi and Jil Sander joining the party this season. But I doubt this can develop into a bigger trend.

Other Trend Reports:

Fashion Platz

Grazia Fashion

Style.com

Tangent

Trend Spark!

TrendStop

The Pink Panther

You know what’s make the Pink Panther so special? Yes, it’s the pink, whole-body-pink. The Pink Panther just paid a visit this season and if you gonna pick 1 color to go, I’d say shocking pink. Be warned, not all of you can handle it.

Please Go Fur-ther

I like the way how the fur integrated into the style. With the global warming, full fur seems a little bit too chunky. But the fur industries still find its way to the show. Just by adding a part of fur or fur-accessories will give you a touch of glamorous and I don’t see any reason why this trend won’t continue to the next season.

The Pretty Women’s Boot

It is a challenge to wear the pretty women’s boot, but I think Miuccia, Marc, Gareth, Hussein did a pretty good job. Remember, the bottom of the dress or skirt should not cover the boot.

Chunky Neckkie

You think that your dress is too simple for the next week cocktail party? Stop thinking about it, all you need to do is to find the perfect Neckkie to go along with the dress. I would suggest Mary Katrantzou for your best reference.

Ethnic Softness

In this period of economic meltdown, it is not a bad idea to make yourself more comfortable, at least more comfortable visually. I would go for the Russian pattern and pastel color.

Asymmetric Shoulder

One-shoulder dress is one of my favourite style. It make the lades look sexy and at the same time glamors. There are many different style of one-shoulder dress in this season and I am really happy to see more on the runway.

Tougher Shoulder

Shoulder play a key role in the 80’s wave. I personally prefer a slightly upward with a touch of futuristic style  rather than a bold shoulder pad. The most powerful woman should be wearing a nice shoulder suit.

Middle East Hoodies

We saw a lot of safari influences lately, but how about the dessert for the mystery pretty?

Others 09/10 AW trend report:

1) The fashion spot

2) style.com