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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Trend 7# SS 2015: STRIPES ON

We no longer see them on the street crossing, their here now on clothes, shoes, scarves, bags, anything possible you can think off. The code which is none just to convey the message of safety to cross on streets is now the pattern/ print on outfits on the runway too. The history for this trend goes back to Medieval times where prisoners, prostitutes, hangmen and all those condemned with a crime or an act of mimicry that would be assigned to wear striped clothing. 

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Written By: Parmita Dilip Sujan                             Designed By: Jenny Chu

It would be ridiculous to notice the negativity that stripes carried before this as a french cobbler was sent to death only because his attire comprised of striped clothing. However with time this has changed. Not only did we see stripes on the condemned but also on the battlefield, where the french navy men wore blue & white striped shirts as their uniform with 21 stripes that symbolized each of Napoleon’s victories.

Even artist like Gene Davis soon  broke free from the negative notion of crime and started making colorful vibrant paintings with colored stripes in 1972. With time artists and designers have adopted stripes as an unquestionable pattern that give off both a casual laid back as well as a formal element of style when paired with timeless classic workwear.. There’s nothing like that of a uniform in them. They come from all directions in different widths and in refreshingly vibrant hues. They may be horizontal, vertical, thin, thick, black and white, this motif is perfect for the SS15 wardrobe that gives out a strong graphic statement whether day or night.

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Trend 6# SS 2015: CULOTTE CRAZY

Pants have always made it to the key trends season after season, whether cropped, ankle length or any other variation for that matter. This SS15 culottes set forth the edgy chic look. They came in leather, suede, printed and exorbitantly oversized or straight legged. Fashion just reached the helm of comfort with the flowing wide legged baseball loose culottes.

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Written By: Parmita Dilip Sujan                             Designed By: Jenny Chu

Gone are the days where slim trousers, now we see the streets flooded with women wearing wide legged culottes.As much as we love maneuvering over our all clean white bed the culottes give us the exact same comfort, except they don’t restrict us to wearing them at home. This key comfort statement has become the point of fashion conversation and showcases on the SS15 runway.

Culottes are relaxed with volume and an illusionary resemblance to the A-line skirt slight texture and paired with cropped top or tailored longer-line jacket or a short smart blouse. The term culotte originates from the Victorian Era when women called these pants a divided skirt which hangs like skirt but looked like pants. Breaking free from the notion of long dresses and skirts being the only lady like attire for women culottes was now an option that bridged compromise with function.These culottes came to be developed for horseback riding so that women could accompany men and not need to sit side saddle but wide legged instead.

The word culotte came along from the French translation of its meaning as split riding skirt. The freedom in the garment structure of culottes was to give women the liberty to perform activities such as gardening, cleaning, bike riding, etc while still maintaining her elegance of a pair trousers that looked like a flowing skirt.

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