Fashion is a little like time travel, always borrowing from
the past but living in the future. Forecasting trends ahead helps inform our
choices of what to buy now. What will be seasonal, what will last, what will be
capturing our attention and inspiring our tastes 6 months or a year from now?
With those questions in mind, here’s an early preview ahead
to fashion in 2013, with a look at some of the anticipated key themes of
the fall / winter 2013 season.
Global trend forecasting agency MPDClick see adventure,
creativity and nostalgia forming a basis of three key themes in fall /
winter 2013. They’ve titled them Wanderlust, Reflective, and Expression.
Wanderlust Wilderness travel inspires a high-winter trend that
combines the keen sense of adventure of iconic explorers with a renewed
fascination for the great outdoors. This lifestyle trend combines modern
functionality with traditional fashion styles.
Colours: grounded slate grey, tawny brown and midnight blue,
“enlivened with fennel green, warm rustic red, and clear crystal blue”.
Elements: modernised Fair Isle knits, florals in earthy colours, graphic prints
that take their cues from mountain landscapes and alpine animals.
Reflective: Modern generations mix nostalgia for their Soviet heritage
with their contemporary futures, resulting in a blend of quirky folk,
Soviet style packaging and a fascination with branded sportswear.
Colours: bright accents against muted tones. Bright gold and
intense turquoise.
Elements: bright, folk-inspired florals with a tough edge.
Expression: Creativity is reinterpreted using expressive freedom within
the urban environment: a rise in art-squats ensures a considered approach to
artistic ventures, commenting on social change with a refective and humorous
slant.
Colours: unusual combinations of artistic expression,
including “pop colours of vivid violet-blue and fluoro yellow.”
Elements: vivid pastel and fluoro pops of colour. Painterly prints and
patterns, haphazard brushstrokes and luminous tones.
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