Dropped Shoulders by Angelica Murray

The dropped shoulder trend is making a big comeback this Fall season as seen in these designs from French designers: Celine, Lanvin, Rick Owens, and Sonia Rykiel's Fall 2011 collections. Extended, sloped shoulders are sculpted into round cocoon shapes, sometimes with contrasting shoulder panels for added interest. Look for this shape in jackets, blouses, dresses, coats, and sweaters.

Celine



Lanvin

Rick Owens

Sonia Rykiel

Eley Kishimoto

Lately I have been spotting the Chevron trend as seen in these two images by Eley Kishimoto's Fall Winter 2011 collection.  The entire collection was highly involved with bright bold colors along with prints, polka dots, and stripes.  
(Amy Villanueva)

Kenzo

Here in Kenzo's winter/fall 2011 collection for menswear, we see a trend that we haven't seen lately.  High rise waisted pants on both images above fastened with a thin belt.  This look definitely reminds me of the 40's era of the 19th century.  Not to mention the knit v neck sweater pullovers and vests paired with a tie.
(Amy Villanueva)

Yohji Yamamoto

Here in Yamamoto's fall/winter collection 2011, he is using the sheer trend on all three outfits above.  The look is also a grunge look which seems to be making it's way on trend again.  The prints and graphics shown are also interesting and the length of the top is very flowy giving it a feminine appeal to to these outfits.
(Amy Villanueva)

Japan: H220430

H220430 is a cutting edge Japanese home accessories and furniture design company. Satoshi Itasaka and Takuto Usami collaborated to establish "h220430" on April 30th, Heisei 22(Heisei is the current era name in japan).Our design activities focus on lighting and furniture, etc. Below is called a MIMIC BENCH that has a bench that is floating but white shadow sculpted like actual people. The people images are manikins that actually hold the bench up. Its all made of  Polyethylene. -Isabele Michel
 


 

Loewe Spring 2012(Tiffany Owens)

Loewe Srping 2012 was influenced by motifs which were reproduced in engineered prints on silk skirts and tops or cut out of leather pieces. Lizards, another of the artist's visual signatures, also appeared as prints or beaded in black on gray suede. Stuart Vevers is the head desinger of this fabulous line
"But with the core of Loewe's business being leather goods, Vevers' challenge with a Spring collection is always going to be how to make skins lighter. He was proud of the fact that the Loewe workshops had come up with a reversible nappa that was the lightest yet. He cut it into a shorts suit or a button-through shirtdress. He also laced leather with tiny perforations, as in a skirt and matching sleeveless top". (Tiffany Owens)

Zara evening look for women

Lately on trend I have been noticing one long sleeved dresses for evening wear.  I spotted this one sleeved from Zara for women in their evening look book for winter.  The dress has a very sleek silhouette and the shoulder on the long sleeve is raised which makes this dress seem very on trend.
(Amy Villanueva)

Zara for men

This Zara men's quilted jacket is made of synthetic leather.  The trend we are seeing here is the the quilted design on the jacket and we can see this trend among other jackets.  This specific design I believe is trendy and upcoming for synthetic leather.  Other quilted design jackets I have seen were on a more outer wear type of jacket like for example Barbour.
(Amy Villanueva)

pattern mixing

A look shown all over the runways this year is pattern mixing. However, if you are going to do it, do it right. mix a large pattern with a smaller pattern to harmonize the look. This Zero + Maria Cornejo look is a perfect example:

(Callie DeLaney)

color blocking

If you want to be on trend this season, pick out a bright, color blocked top or skirt like these shown in the Etro spring 2012 collection:



(Callie DeLaney)