TRENDS // MATERIAL PREVIEW - FALL/WINTER 2015-16

The Material Preview is an event dedicated exclusively to leathers suited for top-end footwear, leather goods, leatherwear, home decor and accessories.  Material Preview aims to supply the leather sector with the tools to study and develop innovation and research on materials to the fullest. Go here to learn more about them.  Their next show is scheduled on June 12, 2014 in Florence, Italy at the Stazione Leopolda, go here to pre-register.

Below is a preview of their Fall/Winter 2015-16 Fashion and Color Trends, a comprehensive guide  subdivided into four key themes. 

   EAST RANGES   

Rigorous luxury, strictness and grandeur. Orthodox Russia fervently moving ahead on the trail of a two-fold aesthetic nomenclature without manifest contradictions. A elaborate intellectual homage which poverfully and tamelessly shows a taste for unworldly luxury without nostaldia in its blase' composure.

   URBAN TRIBES   

African feeling. Away from any ethnic side, moving lightly closer to wild and ancestral rituals of an archetypal aesthetics. Visual medium of tactile sensations becoming chromatic and material inspiration. Symbolic idols living again in firmly strained, formal constructions.

   ABSTRACT CODES   

Essentially innovative stylistic rarefaction. Proposal with a dry and absolute narrative texture saturated with a wave of intimism which transcends figurative reality to a dimension of colors and lines purified by comforting material structures.

   CHROMATIC VALUES   

The right amount of color. Flamboyant, dreamy and ironical full-color scenery. A code expressing a snobbish attitude which attributes abundant eccentricity to new luxury. In a sequence of modulated and variable painted backgrounds.

TRENDS/EVENTS // SPIN EXPO - SPRING/SUMMER 2015 TREND BLAST . YARNS AND COLOURS

Here is a preview of the Spring/Summer 2015 Trend Blast, yarn influences from denim and paper presenting stitches and color from Spin Expo. You can download the PDF here.

Spin Expo is a leading fibres, yarns, knitted fabrics and knitwear show and will be held in Shanghai, Sept 2-4, 2014 if you missed them in Feb in NY. This show is organized by independent textile specialists in fibers. To attend their show you can pre-register online Spin Expo pre-registration.

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ILLUSTRATIONS / EVENTS // MASTERED WITH FASHION ILLUSTRATOR JACQUELINE BISSETT

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TRENDS // ISPO TEXTRENDS - TEXTILE + COLORS . FALL/WINTER 2015/16

ISPO Textrends is ISPO’s new platform for designers, product managers, and the media to discover the latest fabrics, fibers, trims, and accessories for sports, and outdoor apparel. Their exhibitions are held in Munich and Beijing.  Their next show is being held this week in Beijing from Feb 19-22, go here to learn more.  

ISPO teamed up with internationally renowned trend experts to identify the textile trends and colors for Fall/Winter 2015/16 to show what designers and product managers are looking for to develop their upcoming collections. To view the full report, you can visit their site here. 

   5 TEXTILES TRENDS FOR FALL/WINTER 2015/16   

The following trend will describe in detail what designers and product managers are looking for in order to develop their upcoming collections.  Go here to see the full report and you can select the images below to view the images larger and in a slideshow.

   COLOR TRENDS FOR FALL/WINTER 2015/16   

Prime
ISPO Textrend’s core color palette incorporating the bestselling activewear tones shifts slightly sharper up the color spectrum for the season. Black, winter sun and alpine blue sit alongside blazing orange and fir cone brown. The core tones can be used bright for a modern application or taken down for an aged aspect. The season’s new complimenting satellite color palettes take inspiration from both natural sources and the man-made world, offering and creating a harmonious connection for the activewear sector.

Hyper
Brilliant and bold synthetic tones feature, in matte surfaces or taken to new lustrous levels through high gloss finishes. Neon accents also surface complimenting this energetic and charged option. Artificial lucidity takes this palette to a new level.

Mineral Matrix
A combination of minerals through to metallics in classic natural and synthetic tones inspires. From the unique lustre of titanium through to colored metallics that gleam against the raw beauty of black onyx.

Weathered
From wind swept heather, kelp green to rose hip pink and rugged rock, a winter wonderland inspires this natural-based nuance.

Phantom
Pastel tones take up a new look with artificial light filtering through as sepia-style and butterscotch tones inspired from the sky of Mars and powdery tints create a new modern direction through light diffraction.

TRENDS // EVENT - CUIR A PARIS LEATHER AND FUR . SPRING/SUMMER 2015

CUIR A PARIS Leather and Fur show will be held February 18-20, at the Paris Nord Villepinte for S/S 2015.  You can visit their site here, for details.

Here is a preview of their key trends for the Spring/Summer 2015 season

where you can view the full report here.

 A COLORFUL 2015 SUMMER IN PROSPECT 

Although, thankfully, the summer will see plenty of colors, this season they will be less loud. They will play a more refined score.

We talk of discoloration for bleached pastels with a hint of albino. We play with gradations of aqua and celadon shades. We strengthen pigmentary tones to better stifle them, by combining purples with grey-browns and oranges with changing dark greens.

Yellow, from fresh chick to aniseed verdi yellow is already the season's favorite and seems to be a 

recurring theme.

  THE SUMMER 2015 COLOUR PALETTE IN CLOSE-UP   

Summer 15 sees colors become calmer, mellow and more sophisticated.

A white haze softens pastels, which take on an ethereal air, sky-blue and green become celadon, violet is greyer and yellow is tender.

Beige and sandy colors are elegant whilst white is pearlised and lightens pale grey.

The neutrals, Kraft and taupe, are given a rough ride by blotting paper pink and bamboo green.

Summer darks are lightened by floral purples and ochre yellow, whilst greens are deep and changing.

Aqua blues, from ink to zephyr, are indispensable.

The essentials:
Yellows, from chick to sunflower
Blues, from bleached sky to the abyss
Purples, from grey violet to cardinal
And lastly... White and off-white, to be used without moderation.

TRENDS // BRASE DESIGN - SPRING/SUMMER 2015

Brase Design is a fashion and home design studio. They provide design services creating and developing designs customized for their clients.  Their specific style is modern, unique and trendy.

Below is their Spring/Summer 2015 mood boards.  To learn more about their services and to check out their informative blog to view the rest of their key trends, go here.  If you are attending the Indigo show Feb 18-20 in Paris, be sure to stop by to visit them in Hall 5.

BEYOND NATURE

LATE SUNSET

THE BLACK MARKET

URBAN LANDSCAPE

TRENDS / EVENT // PREMIERVISION - SPRING/SUMMER 2015 DENIM

PREMIEREVISION, the world's premier fabric show will be held on February 18-20, in Parc d'Expositions Paris Nord Villepinte for the Spring/Summer 2015 season. To register online, go to PV's - Registration.   Their Fashion Information is a lively multimedia web platform on their site and gets a makeover.  The updated platform will regularly be updated with news, a look at key concepts, expert analysis and discussions, artistic inspiration, colour harmonies and graphic directions along with the teaser film of the season.  Go here to view their fashion news today.

Below are a few images of their Spring/Summer 15 Denim key trends, go here to view the entirety of the denim report. You can discover the full Fashion Report from the Denim by Première Vision show in Paris.

TRENDS // MUNICHFABRICSTART . SPRING/SUMMER 2015 FABRIC AND TRENDS

The MunichFabricStart is an international fabric trade fair that holds two fair trades a year features a wide range of textiles, accessories and trims at this exhibition. Their next show for S/S 2015 is February 4-6, go here to register.  Go here to view and read up on their latest S/S 2015 trend call outs.

You can also order their very reasonable Spring/Summer 2015 trend catalog and color card online, go here and to view their five themes that map the trend scenario with editorial for each theme “Haute Sporture” – four for women’s and men’s wear and one for jeanswear, respectively. Detailed information including visuals and trend colours plus relevant Pantone number can be found on the colour card as usual.

Below is a preview of their fabric trends for the season which you can also view here.

A CAVORTING FREE HEDONISM IS GLIDING ATHLETICALLY ELEGANT OVER THE TREND THEMES WITH A LOT OF TRANSPARENCE AND CLARITY.

Our season`s title HAUTE SPORTURE links perfection with high-end materials, technical qualities with clear cuts, high tailoring skills with sport, naturalness in it’s purest kind and the creative search for new forms and proportions - always with a hint of nonchalance. Without disclaiming the still rich and fantasy filled textile abundance, the joy of mixing is reduced for the first time.

TECHNO POETRY

Cool, elegant and sporty, internally loaded with strong energy, TECHNO POETRY takes the stage in the form of unimposing romantic and restrained technical fashions. Neon white, ecru and mother of pearl radiate a meditative calm. Like clear, fresh morning light, delicate, heavenly cool pastels appear in powdery make-up, pink and carnation tones. Light bamboo tones in green and beige, whether natural matte or in specifically glazed low-tech gloss, warm up the cool colour mood.

SUN LOADED

SUN LOADED mirrors the heat, fun in the city and at the beach, and the acute joie de vivre in the here and now. Artificial chemical colours of all sorts impress with their clarity. From the cool brown of a Long Island iced tea to a kitschy, rayon, lava lamp red and a neon fluorescent flamingo to a turquoise green swimming pool aqua.

EXOTIC MATTERS

It’s the singular influences from the faraway tropics that define for EXOTIC MATTERS the luxuriousness of unknown places and their nevertheless familiar motives. A Southeastern climate spreads out with deeply symbolic purple, red and blue. An exotic, natural colour resplendence glows in mango, dragon fruit, cinnamon, and indigo colours.

FLUXIONAL

FLUXIONAL – Flowing, everything on the move. A theme based on water and its potential: floating, cool, lively. Aquatic tones from light to intensive to deep blue. Cool greens, deep sea teal and purple as well as radiant, jellyfish white let us dive into a breath-taking underwater world.

TRENDS // MATERIAL PREVIEW . SPRING/SUMMER 2015 - FASHION AND COLOR TRENDS

The Material Preview is an event dedicated exclusively to leathers suited for top-end footwear, leather goods, leatherwear, home decor and accessories.  Material Preview aims to supply the leather sector with the tools to study and develop innovation and research on materials to the fullest. Go here to learn more about them.  Their next show is scheduled on December 13, 2013 in Florence, Italy at the Stazione Leopolda, go here to pre-register.

Below is a preview of their Spring/Summer 2015 Fashion and Color Trends, a comprehensive guide indicating the chromatic lines for the season, subdivided into four key themes. And an exclusive range of colors presented on paper. A creative reflection referring to materials interpreted under chromatic aspects. Created for producers and users of materials in the leather, fabric and techno-fabric fields. 

DUNETRIP

A variety of combinations, amid light shades with striking optic effects and dark tones inspired by minerals.

UPLOADED

Eclectic color range with sensorial aspects. Full-bodied with subdued overtones for an imaginative, poetic world.

SUNKISSED

Original landscape-inspired poetry. A carousel of evergreen tones with bursts of energy to update without eliminating aplomb.

FACEFRAME

Assemblage of timeless colors reinterpreted in a hi-tech theme. Amid marked iridescence and delicate profiles.