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The future is warmer, clearer
and brighter with elegant femininity and flattering silhouettes
THE OVERALL
MOOD
Womenswear is heading towards a trend of elegant femininity and flattering
silhouettes.
The focus shifts from trousers to skirts, with hemlines hovering just
below the knee and more casual tailoring with shorter jackets and softened
structure.
Even dresses become an increasingly casual option but with a general
move away from cotton vests and jersey tops towards more embellished
designs.
However, jeans are smarter with tailored cutting and uniform-style details.
The popularity of the shrug helps knitwear stay in demand, along with
crochet and textured lace knits, and wrap shapes.
COLOUR
Colour
remains vital in Spring and Summer 2006.
White continues its trend as a base colour, either on its own or as
an offset of the brights or pastel tones.
Brights will be strong for high Summer casual wear, with tones of clashing
turquoise, burnt orange and fuchsia.
There will be cool, chalky neutrals mixed with the lightest of pastels
just tinged with colour. Lavender and aqua tones will dominate the pastel
colours with brighter pastels being toned down with indigo denim or white
jeans.
The current 'black is back' continues into summer. Darker tones will
be a combination of earthy chocolate, brown and khaki tones worn in layers
together.
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KEY THEMES
African Safari
Africa provides inspiration with bold ethnic prints and a chic safari
style. This is a much richer and more sophisticated approach than recent
safari looks with many prints and decoration taken from traditional African
textiles. These fabrics reflect handcrafting techniques such as crochet,
batik, metallic embroidery, and animal and graphic prints. Colours are
dark and continental with chocolate, sand, orange, black and dull metallic
shines such as old gold and copper. Styling is sophisticated and feminine
rather than a more casual sportswear approach, with long tailored shorts,
button-thru shirt dresses, kaftan necklines, sleeveless pocket-detail
shirts, and slim-fit, multi-pocketed jeans.
Retro Sport
The trend for clean and sophisticated sports-inspired casual wear continues
with fabrics and colours that are crisp and fresh with generous helpings
of cotton in poplin, piqué, denim and twill. White is a base for
colour, along with bright pastel tones. The styling is influenced by
the classic sports of the fifties, with the knee-length shorts of polo,
the cropped blazers of sailing, the shirt dresses and pastel-striped
shirts of tennis, and the V-neck sweaters and slim-fit trousers of cricket.
Vacation
Inspired by the up-market Riveria resorts of the fifties, this trend
takes its cue from sophisticated, nautical styles and classic maritime
white and blue. This inspiration is clear in sailors' blazers and striped
navy and white T-shirts. Other items include poplin short-sleeve and
polo shirts, knee-length tailored shorts, trench coats and nautical-style
accessories.
Victoriana
This
romantic style with decadent frills, ruffles and lace work is fused with
a `70s hippy influence to create an eclectic and individual look.
Colours feature soft washed-out pastels and chalky neutrals with a styling
that focuses on pretty summer layering, inspired by lingerie. This is
contrasted with: military details taken from historical costume, pin-tucked
blouses, lingerie-inspired camisole tops, knee-length tiered skirts,
broderie anglaise skirts and blouses, soft knitted shrugs, waistcoats,
cropped military style jackets, crochet scarves and bold beads accessories.
Courtesy Fashion Info Trends / The Federation of Image Consultants
December 2005
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SPRING/SUMMER 2006 by Vogue
Get a head start on the new season with something white, something ruffly
and something clean-cut. Retro and vintage looks have been swept away,
and whatever feels fresh and airy holds sway. Designers keep looks simple,
which explains the renaissance of the dress: in every shape from shift
to - newest of all - strapless. Black dominated winter, so go white for
spring.
Key looks for Spring/Summer 2006:
 DRESSES
The dress reigns supreme in silhouettes that veer from sleek shirt styles
and chic shifts to delicate babydolls. It comes in every shape imaginable
this season from strapless tulips to shirt waisters.
COATS
Pick a classic trench as your summer staple. Experiment with the new
duster style and Sixties shapes for evening.
PLEATS
From head-to-toe sunray to plissé panels.
NUDES
Softly does it in flushed shades of cream, rose, blush and buff.
SHORTS
Shorts are now smart citywear; choose tailored styles in any length.
WHITE SHIRT
From sexy dress shirts to pretty smocked styles, this classic piece comes
in many delightful guises; forever a style staple.
WHITE
Lighten up in fresh white suiting or embrace the romantic mood in the
prettiest of dresses. At last something to replace all that wintery
black.
DRAPING
Evoke classical elegance in softly draped and folded goddess gowns. There's
an ethereal mood coming on.
CHECKS
Winter's plaids evolve into sweet summery ginghams and madras checks.
Cheerful, childish and lighter than winter's tweed.
DAZZLE
Introducing the new sparkle. Radiate glamour in white gold, moonbeam
silver and sequin-laden shimmer.
UTILITY
Take your inspiration from workwear. Tough it in dungarees, pinafores,
belts and braces.
BANDSTAND
Spring marches in, brings bold stripes and majorette details.Stick to
an American-classic palette of red, white and blue.
RUFFLE & PUFF
Cascades of ruffles, puffed shoulders and voluminous airy shapes. This
is statement dressing to swoon over.
TUXEDO
Channel Marlene in easy mannish cuts or go Latin in matador styles. It's
a can't-go-wrong classic.
LACE AND CROCHET
Laser cutouts, crafty crochet and intricate lace. Fancy dressing in all
in the detail.
TROUSERS
This wardrobe staple gets a style update. Wear yours luxe and loose,
sailor smart or rock-star skinny.
COLLEGE GIRL
Go for campus cool in prim tennis dresses, preppy polo tops and pleat-front
khakis.
SWIMWEAR
Turn heads in graphic black and white with plunging necks. Fifties cuts
are key.
COLOUR
Spring dazzles in a rainbow palette of blazing hues: ochre, amethyst,
cobalt and crimson.
ACCESSORIES
Bags are outsized or detail-heavy, sunglasses are bold and bug-eyed,
wide belts cinch the waist and shoes play to colourful, quirky extremes.
Statement accessories grab the limelight this season.
Courtesy Vogue Magazine
All photos by Vogue
January 2006
2006 Colour Directions
Colors for 2006 will be warmer, clearer and brighter, according to the
color designers at Color Marketing Group (www.colormarketing.org). Reddened
oranges will replace coppery hues; yellows will gain importance; blues
will dramatically recede; and complex neutrals will add sophistication
and luxury to the 2006 Consumer Color Palette.
The color professionals at CMG identified these six key influences driving
the 2006 Color Directions:
- Techno-Organic Balance - Consumers
want to find a balance in their lives between the influences of nature
and the pace of technological advance. They order their lives and base
purchase decisions on this new, somewhat surreal balance.
- Breathing Space - Consumers want
fulfilled and rewarding lives despite the demands of work and society.
To this end, they seek serenity and calm in a space that is insulated
from common daily stresses and emerging threats to safety, both in
public and private.
- Heritage with Heart - However clearly
consumers remember the past, they sense a need to reconnect with it.
Hope and optimism filter memories of past events, ensuring that this
nostalgic journey is warm and comforting. The focus is on positive
times; struggles are forgotten.
- Hybrid - The synthesis of cultural
norms pervades the environment. Society has evolved beyond fusion in
foods, fashion and design. Now, hybrid households and communities are
entering the mainstream. The move to Hybridization occurs in parallel
with geopolitical and economic events and is a product of the proliferation
of global unification in communications, transportation, manufacturing
and services. Although Hybridization is generally accepted by consumers,
it offers a sharp contrast to the comfort of the predictable past.
- Über Luxury - As extravagance
becomes accessible to the masses, there is a need to identify icons
or symbols that convey a new level of status and sophistication. In
response, icons of sophisticated craftsmanship and rare materials with
high polish and burnished finishes will emerge. In fashion, Über
Luxury takes on a classic feminine style that drives decision-making
and brings power to women. In the home, Über Luxury is defined
as masculine, clean simple and elegant.
- Color Depth - Consumers seek bold
colors and luminous materials that add glow and fluidity in product
executions. Visually stimulating chromatic textures yield high—energy
interest and excitement.
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FASHION
Cybernatural
Technology slows down based on Heritage with this new Fashion direction.
Lapis
Crowds will cheer for this favorite Fashion blue enhanced by Techno-effects
for surprise and luminosity.
Orange You Glad!
This high-energy color with glow and power embodies Color Depth. This
Fashion color offers movement and fluidity to drive consumers to say, "I
need it!"
Phosphorice
Discreet Luxury and cyber technology based on chemistry, gadgets, and
liquid crystal screens provide the platform to create this new Fashion
color.
Re-Vamp
A return of classic elements with the illusion of depth and mystery.
Techno-special effects translate this Fashion color from its Heritage
base to today.
Courtesy Color Marketing Group (CMG)
Kim Bolsover
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