Woman Trends Autumn-Winter 2016-17
Woman Trends Autumn-Winter 2016-17
Written by Briony Sturgis
Search and forecast by Fabio Jesus D’Elia
Total Look: Furry
Demonstrating the hierarchy of mankind, the use of fur this season is shown to be incredibly popular in adding individualistic detail to every outfit.
Balmain
Suede and fur are vital to Balmain’s look, big gold accessories adding Roman-Goddess like prowess to the soft muted colourings. Broad shoulders.
Balenciaga
Balenciaga pairs statement collars with leather jackets and straight cut trousers for a look that resonates dominance and strength. Skirts are pleated and bright, governing the eye and paired with knee high leather boots.
Burberry
Bold furs and thick textures add weight and stature to these jackets paired with netted tights.
Chloé
Bold, different coloured furs and varied patterned boots create a sense of control and power in the movement of Chloe’s long, oversized coats.
Ann Demeulemeester
This all black combination uses the layering of simple cuts to add ingenuity and thoughtfulness amidst this gothic display.
Christian Dior
Wide open fur collars paired with high neck jumpers and block colours emphasize the contrast seen between the top and bottom halves of each look; bare legs and lace ups add an effortless ease to this striking apparel.
Emporio Armani
The use of statement furs and pixelated colour variation is eye catching and daring, creating a look allowing the black coats and blazers to appear to morph into different colour variations and styles.
Alberta Ferretti
Fur is used to accent, adding individuality to designs both simplistic and also already involving animalistic themes such as birds. A variety of different fabrics are used such as silk and cotton.
Gareth Pugh
Pugh’s use of fur is subtle and sophisticated, paired with leather to create an sense of sleek professionalism. Neutral colours are used such as tan, cream and muted taupe.
Givenchy
Givenchy’s use of fur on the collars of leapard print coats reinforces the animalistic theme. Similarly paired with feather-like jewellery, it can be seen in luxurious fur coats and scarves alike.
Gucci
Paired with a flamboyant demonstration of colour, Gucci’s style is vibrant and tropical, paired with block prints and also patterned styles.
Reminiscent of Greek style toga’s, grey layered fabrics are paired with mint green boots. A more rustic style is portrayed in the use of burgundy and browns.
Fur works to compliment pattern, shown to add simplicity and neutrality to busy compilations of different layered designs.
Saint Laurent
Big shoulder pads, block colours and wide sleeves allude to black-swan gothic ideals.
Ermanno Scervino
Brown and grey tones are layered and assimilated together in the accenting of trench-coat collars, whilst headpieces work to create a snow queen vibe in tandem with knee length dresses.
Valentino
Valentino showed fur to be the belle of the ball in its role as the perfect eveningwear addition. Pictured with a sheer jumpsuit and dresses in muted neutrals.
Dries Van Noten
Dark colours and animal prints make fur the perfect preppy addition to shirt and tie apparel.
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Total Look: Gothic
As ever, black is highlighted in its simplicity and applicability to just about any outfit, with designers across the globe illustrating its timelessness and suitability to just about any outfit.
Chalayan
This use of all black and straight edges creates a gothic subtlety. Flowing plunging blazers juxtapose collared tops and leather skirts, paired with thick soled flats.
Ann Demeulemeester
Accents of colour and texture paired with rope headpieces add ingenuity to Demeulemeester’s style. Straight legged trousers are worn with long overcoats, seen here in a variety of different fabrics such as leather and fur.
Alexander McQueen
The versatility of black is demonstrated as McQueen conjures up racy styles in the use of sheer fabrics, plunging necklines and netting.
Valentino
Valentino epitomizes the need for winter warmth in flowing portrayals of layering and mismatching fabrics to create the perfect style. Pictured here with biker boots, flowing back trench coats and high polo necks, complimented by leather belts and silver jewellery.
Yamamoto
Long trench coats and casual trousers and flats add an edge and modernity to this contemporary approach to everyday wear.
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Total Style: Sheer
From top to bottom, sheer styles work to both add to and accent the human form.
Alexander Wang
The use of sheer long sleeved t shirt emphasizes the impact of Wang’s slogans, creating a vibe of teenage rebellion reinforced in the use of patterned leaf print and sheer tights.
Chloé
Sheer flowing fabrics with tiered layering and ingrained patterns create a sense of bohemian beauty, enhanced through the use of shoulder cut outs and pastel colouring.
Emporio Armani
Sheer backdrops to geometric print emphasize the role of shapes to this display of modern creativity, allowing the body to become arguably like a canvas on which to abstractly paint.
Alberta Ferretti
The interspersed sheer panels amidst the neutral tones used in these floor like dresses create a fairy-queen like ethereality that feels transcendent of human life. Silken fabrics and lace create movement and flow.
Gucci
Sheer neutral fabrics work to highlight Gucci’s demonstration of colour and print. Hats and netting are used showing sheer fabrics interacting to compliment facial as well as bodily features. Full skirts create movement and depict a sense of vibrancy.
Marchesa
Full skirts, plunging necklines and the use of a pastel pallete creates a sense of grace and effortless femininity.
Alexander McQueen
These majestic designs show sheer fabrics interspersed with gold and silver, illuminating the full body as vital to the overall look. These designs celebrate the human form, creating a majestic sense of wonderment in the use of flowing skirts creating energy and effortless grace.
Ermanno Scervino
Both bright and neutral colours are paired with simplistic shoes to illustrate a sense of fluidity and natural luminosity. Long sleeves and high necks work to cover the body completely.
Valentino
Valentino uses tiers and layering to add texture and vigour to the human form. Coloured patterns are interspersed on flesh like material creating Aztec-like insinuations alongside pairings with pastel colours.
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Must Have: Statement Collier
From the understated to the dazzling, this year highlight the beauty of neck pieces to an overall look.
Chanel
Chanel uses statement pieces involving white pearls of various sizes to compliment eclectic combinations and matching pairings alike.
Marchesa
As part of subtly sheer designs, the neck is incorporated seamlessly into gold and silver outfits in a way making the skin seem like a fabric itself. Ranging in size and shape depending on the piece, Marchesa demonstrates a variety of different colours in the jeweled goddess-like drapery of each dress.
Alexander McQueen
Subtlety and sophistication resonate from McQueen’s runway as silver neckpieces with multiple threads add a unique flair to open blazers.
Valentino
These statement chains overlap simplistic colouring as the arguable centerpiece of each outfit. Each abstraction sits above the heart, demonstrating its resonance as vital to Valentino’s designs.
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Must Have: Leather
Whether as an over-piece or as part of layering, leather continues to profess itself as vital to making a statement this Autumn.
Chalayan
Chalayan proves Leather to add edge and novelty when paired with monochromatic layering and draped shirts.
Chloé
Emanating power, Chloe’s bold utilization of leather across dresses, skirts and jackets alike demonstrates its versatility and resonance to every wardrobe piece.
Gareth Pugh
Pugh mixes leather and fur to create stylish, clean-cut and fitting designs.
Hermes
The combination of geometric cuts and the utilization of colour mark out Hermes’ designs as unique. Clean lines paired with different shapes add a timelessness to the more modern take on leather apparel.
Alexander McQueen
Used both as the centerpiece and the majority of jackets, McQueen demonstrates the malleability of leather amidst badge-like detailing and also ways bedecked with flower print, summarizing an edgy encapsulating the rebellion of punk-rock past.
Saint Laurent
Leather provides a gothic edge to Saint Laurent’s dark, demon-esque demonstrations of fur and texture. Minimalistic accessories and fishnet tights work to accent the black body, one pieced designs of dresses and jumpsuits alike.
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Must Have: Oversized Garments
Whether using block colours or vibrant designs, oversized garments work to be the perfect addition to every outfit this season.
Acne
Loud colours, busy patterns and animalistic-like prints mark Acne’s designs from the rest.
Alexander Wang
Wang employs dark colours, varying fabrics and minimalism dictating a power and resonance on the catwalk.
Balenciaga
Statement collars add individuality to these coats perfect for everyday wear.
Bottega Veneta
Trench coats in heavy wool and dark colours work with matching scarves to create professionalism perfect for winter.
Burberry
Burberry pairs block colours with bright hemming and bold detailing. Big buttons, fur hoods and belts add eye-catching focalizers to the oversized coats paired with netted tights and slim fit trousers.
Chalayan
Dark colours are detailed with layered fabric and unique cuts. Chalayan pairs shorter garments with matching coloured trousers to create looks business like and unified throughout the body.
Chanel
Here long trench coats are broken up with coloured necklines fur-detailed sleeves. Paired with blocked hats and black shoes, Chanel’s designs are sleek and subtle.
Gucci
Gucci’s exploitation of light can be seen in the reflective nature of the fabrics and prints in moving down the runway. Jackets are boxy and involve straight, clean cuts.
Miu Miu
Unifying Miu Miu’s looks is the use of cinching-belts at the waistline adding shape to otherwise loose coats and jackets. A variety prints and cuts illustrate variation and creativity amidst the use of darker block colours.
Pucci
Expressive busy prints set Pucci’s designs apart, the use of bright, tropical colours across a large surface area showing a fearless audacity in the spotlight. Paired with pointed shoes.
Vivienne Westwood
Red-riding hood style capes and coloured headpieces allow these oversized garments to create a sense of dystopia. Both structure and fluidity can be seen in these long trench coats and blazers alike.
Must Have: Velvet
Velvet brings a high class sense of luxury and texture this season, shown to be malleable to plenty of styles and interpretations.
Haider Ackermann
Deep colours can be seen in both jackets and trousers. Ackerman illustrates both pattern and block print in displaying plunging velvet blazers and straight cut trousers.
Balmain
Balmain’s futuristic employment of velvet brings modernity and individuality alongside cut outs and geometric shape.
Bottega Veneta
Here velvet adds spice to an understated suit…
Dolce & Gabbana
Off the shoulder round necks paired with statement collars add a unique touch to this knee length, velvet dress.
Emporio Armani
Velvet compliments demonstrations of different shapes to provide a simplistic, beautiful backdrop to the luminosity of such geometric designs.
Alberta Ferretti
Velvet is paired with nude pastel style colours. Paired with lace panels and floor length trousers.
Givenchy
Black velvet is paired with different fabrics such as fur and leather alike, showing Givenchy’s acknowledgement towards different eye catching detailing as part of dresses and overcoats.
Prada
Long dresses featuring both high and plunging necklines. Capes employing fabrics and high collars.
Pucci
Bright neon colours and zips paired with geometric insinuations of colour create a futuristic, sci-fi feel to the look.
Valentino
Subtle, muted colouring conjures ideals of woodland scenes in Valentino’s displays of flowing skirts and textured bodices as seen in these dresses.
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Pattern: Floral
Encapsulating a part of nature varied, changing and forever beautiful throughout the year, floral patterns are not one to miss this season.
Balenciaga
Employing flowing skirts and wide shoulders, Balenciaga use movement and changing colour to travel through the seasons, demonstrating the durability and versatility of small-print floral patterns. Paired with knee high boots and striped tights.
Burberry
With short shift dresses, larger prints show an artistic and more abstract approach to floral design amidst varying colours from green and blue to orange and pink.
Dolce & Gabbana
Demonstrating the beauty of mid-length calved dresses, Dolce e Gabanna uses bright, vivid colours paired with black to create a contrast striking and beautiful on the runway. Paired with short, wide sleeves, long sleeves and no sleeves alike.
Alberta Ferretti
With an incandescent take on the floral trend, Feretti pairs floral prints with faded silvers and muted golds reminiscent of moonlight walks and idyllic fairy lands. Seen on both dresses and jumpers.
Gucci
Gucci uses both sheer and opaque fabrics to create a sense of seamlessness between the floral print and the skin. Wave sleeves add fluidity to the sheer fabric, and mermaid-esque hemlines give shape and structure to the floor length pieces where flowers are an added texture to the dress.
Miu Miu
Paired with block colours, Miu Miu resonates oriental styles ideals in the highly patterned nature of the dark colours on a neutral backdrop. Shown on trousers and long overcoats.
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Pattern: Leopard
Edgy and animalistic, leopard patterns can be seen featured in a multitude of colours across dresses, coats and jackets alike.
Acne
Acne showed the subtlety of this print, pairing it with simple, block colours and sheer fabrics to create a sense of imprinting upon the skin.
Bottega Veneta
Featuring the originality of orange and black colouring, Bottega Veneta pairs this classic take on the leopard coat with black scarves and muted neutrals.
Dolce & Gabbana
A sense of origin and progression is depicted in this dress style as literal pictures of leopards are interspersed within the print itself. Paired with patterned shoes and detailed with black accessories.
Givenchy
Givenchy parades a jungle across the catwalk as he proves a plethora of animalistic prints to work in harmony. The governance of the print in the outfit as part of jackets and coats dictates a hierarchy just as within the jungle itself.
Ermanno Scervino
Trench coats paired with boots and straight cut trousers. The use of fur as part of the collars again reinforces the animal kingdom within the outfit, dictating a sense of predator and prey to the piece and emanating a sense of dominance and power.
Dries Van Noten
A sense of orientalism is added to Van Noten’s work in the pairing with royal colours and fine patterned print. The print is used from top to toe, employed in mid cut, long trousers and jumpers alike.
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Colour: Pastels
Pastels are proving to be prevalent this season, from fitted two-pieces and tight mini dresses to the rippling fluidity of mid length skirts and the rigidity of knitted, boxed jumpsuits.
Balmain
This season, Balmain can be said to have displayed pastels in tangent with harsh lines, utilizing a range of styles from corsets to bodycon dresses and one pieces each using harsh lines. Buttons, belts and pinstripes are paired to enhance the dominance created in each piece.
Bottega Veneta
Bottega featured pleated skirts with sheer tops and simplistic under-pieces. Black shoes and thin belts provide contrast to the mythical allusions created in the conjunction of the pastel coloring and flowing fabric.
Chanel
Matching skirts and jackets mark Chanel, with boxed knitted fabrics and harsh lines and puffed sleeves.
Chloé
Encapsulating a Bohemian vibe, Chloe featured sheer patterned fabrics with ruched hemming and plunging necklines.
Emporio Armani
By contrast to this, Emporio Armani employed boxed cuts and short skirts, establishing unity throughout the contrasting black and pastel colours via different matching highlights from the collar detail to the shoes.
Gucci
Gucci’s use of texture is evidence in coloured feathers and furs. The pieces are long, with belts adding shape to the sheer draping fabrics and puffed arms.
Hermes
Woollen are incorporated into woolen fabric creating simple twists in everyday dress wear.
Marchesa
Marchesa reminisces towards nympette-fairy queen ideals with the use of tiered fabrics and sheer layers.
Pucci
Pucci’s collection was all about vibrancy, colour and eclecticism, with bold colours working together in busy patterns spread across the front of layered designs.
Ermanno Scervino
Scervino’s addition to the pastel trend involves simple one pieces combined with more statement accessories, drawing attention to the subtle detailing of the works seen in the button-work and pointed shoe design.
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Colour: Winter Whites
The simplistic minimalism and understated durability of white still proclaims dominance amidst the winter trends.
Bottega Veneta
Statement suits paired with throwaway scarves and metallic accessories can be seen at Bottega Veneta.
Chanel
Chanel uses the beauty of contrast in pairing sheer whites with the opaqueness of black. Statement jewellery and accessories work to shield the neck in looks where fabric has left it bare, creating pieces working to interact with the body from top to toe.
Chloé
Chloe employs white in its every shade amidst a variety of tops, trousers and dresses, celebrating the movement and flow of each design highlighted in the subtlety of the colouring.
Christian Dior
Dior nostalgic use of high collars and pleats ironically seems futuristic, paired flowing one pieces and mid-length full skirts.
Dolce & Gabbana
Similarly casting back to Victorian ideals of petticoats and long frocks, Dolce & Gabbana put twists on old classics in using wide, powerful collars and accented button pieces.
Emporio Armani
Emporio Armani’s collection resonated professionalism with soft, clean cuts paired alongside black and minimalistic coloured accents.
Salvatore Ferragamo
Ferragamo employ white one pieces with statement shoes, utilizing the neck to illustrate different collars coupled with scalloped edging and tiered layers.
Gucci
Gucci demonstrates wide shoulders and powerful sleeves amidst simplistic cuts and straight legs.
Hermes
Similarly tailored, Hermes combines business and pleasure the simultaneous detailing and pocket work on the straight cut, understated designs.
Rick Owens
Futuristic layering and cowl necks create movement and vigour alongside the stillness of the white colouring paired with black knee high boots.
Ermanno Scervino
Amidst a variety of fabrics, Scervino utilizes long sleeves and mid length skirts to counterbalance sheer detailing and padded shoulders. Socks and sandals create a unique twist on ankle-strapped heels.
Woman Trends Autumn-Winter 2016-17
Woman Trends Autumn-Winter 2016-17
