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Fashion Trends ss17

Fashion Trends ss17

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With the fashion weeks ss17 well behind, it’s now time to decipher what the strongest messages are, and what the key fashion trends ss17 will be. As we always do, we started out with collecting images and looks that inspired us on our Pinterest boards divided by cities, and they’re a great help in quickly finding the strongest images and being reminded of the various designer collections. When we speak about fashion trends for a given season – and in this case fashion trends ss17 – there’s a difference between the trends that will be really successful with the buyers and customers and shape, what we will see in the shops and streets in six months time, and then the trends, little signals (which we have on previous occasions called ‘sparkling stars’), that will somehow influence the following fashion season aw17/18. It’s essentially a question of understanding where a given trend is on the trend curve; incoming, peaking, outgoing. Fast Fashion brands will look at peaking and do ‘what is hot’ for the season. Pret-a-Porter …

Fashionable feminism

Fashionable Feminism

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The recent Christian Dior collection ss17 – with the newly appointed Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri – were not only beautiful looks from one of the world’s most renowned fashion brands; there was also an important message among of fashionable feminism. While the word ‘feminism’ was first coined some 150 years ago, the battle has continues since then, but with women having achieved, if not all then at least many of the same rights as men, at least in the modern Western world, the word has somehow lost its appeal. While it essentially means ‘equal rights’ (and who can not agree to that?), it’s almost as there’s something too hippie and carnal about the word that doesn’t go well with our polished world, where things look best when having been given a filter and are being observed on the latest smart phone at a safe distance. The bra says it all. We all wear it; young girls to elderly women regardless of nationality, age and social status – everywhere. It’s a reaction to the more …

Minimal silhouette - Olivier Theyskens

A minimal silhouette

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Fashion is fickle – no doubt about that! It’s only two days ago that I made a point about how a fashion collection must have a strong and novel silhouette in order to be exciting (read more about that here) that I find myself falling in love with collections with a minimal silhouette that is very straightforward. So how can that be? Because in fashion there really aren’t any rules, and in the minute you give a guideline of how to make something work, it’s proven that it can be done otherwise. It’s anything but German grammar, where a rule is a rule – no exception. In fashion sometimes it just works, because… yeah, well, it just works. This can make fashion hard to teach, and it can make it hard to comprehend for outsiders. That’s probably also one of the reasons, why a fashion designer’s finest asset is his or her ability to see the world in a unique way and trust ones own intuition. A couple of days ago, I got really excited …

London fashion week ss17 street style

London Fashion Week ss17

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London Fashion Week ss17 is over, and it has for sure been a rich experience! As we always do, we collected the looks that stood most out to us on Pinterest (check it out here) in order to sort out what inspired us. Later, when all the fashion weeks are over, we will run over it again and use it for our trend forecasting. For now, it’s just fashionable indulgence. We have previously argued that it’s important to form ones own ideas, as it’s otherwise easy to be influenced by other peoples’ opinions. The reason is that fashion is socially contextualised, and therefore we all experience fashion differently. There are no right or wrong – though there are general opinions prevailing – and at the end of the day it’s all just very subjective. This can be good to remember, when we hear various opinions pointing in east and west and don’t know what to think. Vogue praised the best 10 shows of London Fashion Week ss17 and – among others – mentioned Christopher Kane, one …

Danish fashion designer Stasia ss17

Danish fashion designer Stasia

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One of the very bright stars on the fashion sky is Danish fashion designer Stasia. She has been around forever, which is perhaps the one key metric in measuring the success of fashion designers in an industry, where new brands see the light of day all the time, and disappear just as quickly. The longevity speaks of popularity with the customers, ability of running a business, but also what this article is going to focus on; a thorough love and passion for creating amazing products. The reason, that we at The Fashion Crowd love Stasia, is – a part from being most of us dress girls, and then it’s hard not to fall in love – because the love for fashion is evident in every choice of fabric, every colour combination, every detail and every cut. How we see it, this is fashion poetry, almost like an ode. And this is exactly what so much fashion is missing today in a fast-paced million-dollar industry. Needless to say, this is also one of the many reasons, …