Trend 12# FW 2015: Floral Splash

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Curated By: Parmita Dilip Sujan

The detail in each season manifests around design and couture that transform the language of the fashion that was once parse! With buttoned up suede jacketed dresses and tweed suits in summer we prefer to carry them forward to the Fall season this year. A sweet bouquet of just the right palette to add the element of grace to a dark and gloomy winter weather. Darkness with a shadow from summer is one of our favorites this season as we progress toward the winter canvas with a selection of natural form magnified or scattered, elongated or clustered to make for motifs that make winter a season we would love to undo the dressing down.  

Courtesy: Saks Fifth Avenue, NY

Trend 11# SS 2015: Minimal Balance

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Curated By: Parmita Dilip Sujan

With the topsy-turvy, a-line and asymmetrical, the minimal balance with designers criss-crossed attires that manipulate the structure and enhance unified silhouettes in minimal color palettes. Whether its box pleated skirts in suede leather or fringed bodices make this Spring Summer 2015 surely the summer for neutral. Edgy tailored separates in pared down palette basics have us packing away the super neutral ensembles. Sleek workwear that makes the office less monotonous and clinch worthy transforms the belted suit into a silhouette thats playful with the weather yet toned down to suit the atmosphere of a working holiday. Balance it with Minimalism!!  

Image Courtesy: Saks Fifth Avenue

Trend 10# SS 2015: QUIRKY ENSEMBLE

Any professional work wear paired with a kitsy quirky accessory brings an element of fun and excitement into it. Fashion doesn’t necessarily mean style, elegance in its most sophisticated form. Bringing elements from your childhood into fashion has struck nostalgia among collections.

Using object and structures of small things around us from our everyday life transformed a trend among major fashion houses. With the recent showcase by brands like Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Moschino, Anya Hindmarch etc.. drew everyone with surprise with their amazing quirky ensemble. Inspirations driven by cereal boxes, lego pieces, clocks, books, etc all took on a fashionable stylish personality.

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Written By: Parmita Dilip Sujan                             Designed By: Jenny Chu

With an all formal outfit carrying this quirky ensemble made it look classy, edgy and fun. The little wonders are well incorporated into your look, adding the kitschy touch that is a great conversation starter. The otherwise classy overly elegant outfit is driven and emphasized with wacky food bags and the casualness of your youth.

The cute quirky clutches have offered the fashionistas of the world to stand out and pop amongst a crowd of people through their small scale but strong visual impact. Whether it seems appropriate to be added to workwear no but it definitely works as a major must have for evening dinners and parties. This trend has managed to play the right notes on the runway and has taken over the long gone scare of fashionistas not taking risks. Women are no longer influenced to not take on quirky out of the box pieces as a part of their look but instead use these as conversation starters to pep up the viewers and socialites as well. 

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Trend 9# SS 2015: PEP IT UP

The new universal garment extension is surely “Peplum”. This term is derived from a Greek word “peplo”meaning “shawl”.The common action of Greek women gathering the extra fabric around their waist, resembles the peplum skirt, that took several centuries later. Peplum is the ideal lady like silhouette inspired from Christian Dior. The 1947 collection Tailleur Bar that comprised of a blazer with a dramatic skirted waist. The garment structure of this silhouette is to complement a woman’s natural hourglass shape at all times of the day. Designers show peplum as the wardrobe replenisher sometimes basic in one mono color or patterned or unusually embellished with unexpected materials.

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Written By: Parmita Dilip Sujan                                           Designed By: Jenny Chu        

Inspired from a woman’s fantasy in her childhood of dancing as a ballerina or wearing fairy like costumes, peplum takes on the shape and gives the woman wearing it the similar feeling. A woman feels as though she is having her fantasy and exclusivity compared to others wearing boxy or skinny fitted blouses.

Such a wide range of clothing styles has led to designers creating outfits for every body type enhancing and ornamenting every aspect of a woman’s curvilinear body. The short overskirt draws attention to the tinier waist area of a woman’s body, and then puffs out to give your hips some shape. Rather than creating an illusion, it accentuates your natural shape. This clearly a great opportunity for all the ladies to take advantage of this all around flattering trend. An international shape that has now become the universal shape of femininity for women.

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Trend 8# SS 2015: PEEK-A-BOO

Skin and panels play hide ‘n’ seek this SS15. Any elegant women would reveal just that much skin that would keep her pride but yet make her look as elegant as possible. Whether you conceal or reveal this Spring the subtly sexy sheer trend is in. The most disguised way to express this trend is through thinly veiled midriffs, shoulders and legs leave less to the imagination as barely-there translucent finishes and peek-a-boo panels gives away the sexiest and most trendiest way to reveal skin this Spring.  

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Written By: Parmita Dilip Sujan                            Designed By: Jenny Chu

Femininity is brightened with a balanced dose of sheer and showing off of our skin. A woman’s style and personality is well poised through the elegance of sheer peek-a-boo. The concept behind this trend is to give off a “peek” of your flawless skin that when exposed through a cut-out reveals just the right amount that would strike people by awe. Like we all are familiar that nothing in excess is good, the same way designers this season have tactfully struck the balance between the excess which would look vulgar and the appropriate that would look graceful.

With a universal personality, this trend can flatter any body type, because designers are strategically placing these cut-outs to make us all look gorgeous with a “peek” of skin. It’s not just sheer or transparent materials that do it all, its the craft behind blending these materials subtly with other fabrics that work well together, making the trend have the life that it needs.

The cut-out works to be sophisticated, fashionable, and classy, yet its placement is unexpected and fun.

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