OMBRE AND TROUSSEAU

are you ready for dyeing?

This spring as everything is related to colours and being possitive, we have to get a bit crazy and show our creativeness.  

Ombre is A French term that means "shaded." the colours go gradually from light to dark. The color effect is woven into the fabric. if you don't find anything that you like in the shops you can dye a garment yourself. 

There are some videos in youtube that teach you so, for example this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=olQ99q7w6dY

Dennis Basso

Dries Van Noten

Douglas Hannant

Marc Jacobs

Remember that ombre dyeing is not only for dresses, it suits all the kind of items you want. Be innovative. 

Dries Van Noten

Basso & Brooke

Dries Van Noten

Trousseau

It means the clothes, household linen, and other belongings collected by a bride for her marriage. the strongly coming of this trend i think is due to an aim that wants to establish the old values of fashion. By that i mean all those crafts that involved fashion in the old days.

Antonio Marras

BCBG

Behnraz Sarafpour

Brioni

Collette Dinigan

Erdem

It reminds me to the rococo style, specifically to versailles's walls. The way all the organic shapes are interconnected is so beautiful and so feminine...

mirror room

Brioni

Grace Kelly

Grace Kelly in her wedding never looked so pretty, her beauty is like an utopia, so not reachable, It brings back also all the naiveness from the last decades that now seems to be so over. All the good associated with the new borns.

baby cuff

Alberta Ferreti

Julien Macdonald

Maurizio Pecoraro

Tibi

PRINTS

PRINTS

This summer is all about positiveness: prints and bright colours.

Jessica Stam , Steven Klein

 Designers want to see us very cheerful and happy when the circumstances are not so god. we have to pull all our energy out and the best of our smiles.

there are many two ways of wearing motifs, there are some garments that have just one motif, in the other hand there are some that have a pattern all over it. Most of the time when a motif is repeated it is about flowers, animal fur imitation, or geometrical figures.

Vogue It

SINGLE MOTIF

Single motifs are like statements, I bet you all have wore a t-shirt, saying that you love NY, that you were in some hard road cafe, that you listen to ramones, or that you agree with Che Guevara's political ideas, for instance. 

Holly Fulton

Carolina Herrera

Jil Sander

Abbey Lee,  model with Mona Lisa's print

kate Moss, fashion icon, is really into floral patterns and funny enough she has become a print herself.

Marilyn Monroe portrait by Andy Warhol

Kate Moss as Marylin Monroe

FRORAL PRINTS

Every spring summer we have this trend, after all the coldness that winter brings we know is time for the good weather when nature tell us so. I always find myself realizing the trees are not bold anymore, or that the flower have bloomed, and that therefore the summer is just around the corner :)

Kenzo advertisement

Kenzo is well known for this kind of floral prints, it has this kind of feeling very bohemian, that looks very elegant and casual at the same time.

Matthew Wiliamson

Rochas

Carlos Miele

Etro

Jil Sander

Jil Sander I salute you...absolutely gorgeous dress, breathtaking.

Julien Macdonald

Erdem

Marchesa

Fendi

GEOMETRICAL PRINTS

Geometrical patterns was a huge thing during the 60's and 70's, this year fashion recalls this period (the 70's), so we will see may prints based on geometric figures. Some of them are  inspired as well in nature other are arty or futuristic. 

Marc Jacobs

Proenza Schouler

Proenza Schouler

Cristopher Kane

Etro

Sachin + Babin

Marchesa

COMBINATION OF PRINTS

Combining different patterns is a great idea, for those of you that feel like a curtain when wearing a very girly floral print. Try always to mix small sized with a bigger sized motif and also different colours. 

John Galliano

Coco Rocha at Vogue

Sometimes combining different patterns attaches an ethnic look, I love to play around with lots of prints, It's very summery to have this tribal desire. 

Vogue

Louisa Gray

Vivienne Westwood

Antonio Marras

Freja Beha at Vogue

Pattern-up!