[ TREND REPORT ] YELLOW - Marina Araujo Alvarez

Monday, November 4, 2013

Today's post [ TREND REPORT ] YELLOW is from one of our team member, fashion and trend contributor Marina Araujo Alvarez who is a Fashion Designer and Stylist located in Barcelona, Spain. 

Make sure to visit her amazing and inspirational blog, marinaaraujoalvarez.wordpress.com and her website marinaaraujoalvarez.com.

© Marina Araujo Alvarez - all rights reserved.   Inspirational layout may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, photocopying, or otherwise, without prior written permission.

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TRENDS // PATTERNBANK - CATWALK PRINT + PATTERN TREND REPORT S/S 2014

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Patternbank is an exceptionally great resource with over 20 years in the print, graphics and fashion industry. Their global research brings you essential inspiration ideas for graphics, prints and patterns, making Patternbank a valuable resource and intelligence tool for any business, designer or buyer.  To stay informed of their reports, sign up for the Patternbank Weekly Digest here.  You can also now buy their A/W 14-15 Part I and II Print Trend Report.

Below is a preview of their Catwalk Print + Pattern Trend Report for S/S 2014.  In this report Patternbank delivers the key Spring/Summer 2014 print & pattern trends seen at the recent New York, London, Paris and Milan Runway shows. Their trend team have analyzed all the relevant designers collections to capture the seasonal key print trends and colour stories from the shows. This handy report brings you the key print insights making this report an essential tool for your seasonal print & pattern developments.

• 15 print trend stories for Spring/Summer 2014

• 47 pages of inspirational print forecast intelligence which includes 15 inspirational print trends:

  Artistic Portraits / Bold Stripes / Brush Marks / Creative Plaids / Furnishing Styles / Geological Textures / Geometric Tessellation / Jungle Tropics / Ombré & Blurred / Optical Monochrome / Ornamental Opulence / Super Scale Florals / Trailing Blossoms / Tribal Hybrid / Typographical Slogans

• Over 360 on trend hand-picked images

• Covers New York, London, Paris & Milan S/S 2014 shows

• 6 colour trends for S/S 2014

• £20 (approx. $33) via PayPal, go here to download their report now.

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TRENDS // TREND COUNCIL . S/S 2014 RUNWAY DETAILS

Friday, October 18, 2013

Trend Council is a fashion trend forecasting company who delivers expert analysis and design inspirations. Their team provides a great wealth of consulting services for all your company's design needs.  Trend Council focuses on the Ladies, Juniors, Mens, Young Mens and Active markets. To learn more about their services, go here.

Here are a few of their key material call outs earlier posted  Metallic, Fringe and Mesh and additionally today are Illusion Skirt,  Moroccan Tile and Raw Edge from the SS14 Runway. 

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TRENDS // TREND COUNCIL - SS14 RUNWAY

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Trend Council is a fashion trend forecasting company who delivers expert analysis and design inspirations. Their team provides a great wealth of consulting services for all your company's design needs.  Trend Council focuses on the Ladies, Juniors, Mens, Young Mens and Active markets. To learn more about their services, go here.

Here are a few of their key material call outs, Metallic, Fringe and Mesh from the SS14 Runway. 

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TRENDS // PATTERNBANK . NY FASHION WEEK 2013 HIGHLIGHTS PART I

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Patternbank is an exceptionally great resource with over 20 years in the print, graphics and fashion industry. Their global research brings you essential inspiration ideas for graphics, prints and patterns, making Patternbank a valuable resource and intelligence tool for any business, designer or buyer.  To stay informed of their reports, sign up for the Patternbank Weekly Digest here.  You can also now buy their A/W 14-15 Part I and II Print Trend Report.

Below is a preview of their New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 Print Highlights Part I.  You can view their entire report here.

Patternbank brings you the highlights from New York S/S 2014 Fashion Week. This is the first instalment where we have selected designers showing key print trends for Spring / Summer 2014. Watch out for Part 2 which will follow shortly and also the up and coming London, Milan and Paris Shows which we will also be covering here at Patternbank.

    NICOLE MILLER   

Floral and Print mix – Blurred and double exposed Prints – Shared & Fractured Looks – Intense Micro Kaleidoscope Effects  - Painted Floral – Abstract Texture Combinations

Nicole Miller photos via Style.com

    BCBG  MAX AZRIA   

Hand Painted Florals – Pattern build ups - Flowing Florals – Distorted Beauty – Monochrome Expression – Ink Marked Pattern – Sectioned structure

BCBG Max Azria photos via Vogue.com

   DIANE VON FURSTENBURG   

Tribal References – Linear Patter – Gradient In-fill Pattern – African Animals - Light Distortion – Graphic Pattern

Diane Von Frustenberg photos via Style.com

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TRENDS // TREND COUNCIL - RESORT 2014 KEY COLOR AND STYLES

Monday, July 1, 2013

Trend Council is a fashion trend forecasting company who delivers expert analysis and design inspirations. Their team provides a great wealth of consulting services for all your company's design needs.  Trend Council focuses on the Ladies, Juniors, Mens, Young Mens and Active markets. To learn more about their services, go here.

Here are their latest observation of Resort 2014 key color and styles. 

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TRENDS // DESIGN OPTIONS . SS 2014 COLOR INSPIRATIONS

Monday, June 3, 2013

DESIGN OPTIONS is a Los Angeles based trend and color forecasting company, providing trends from a west coast perspective. For the Women's Market, here are color and print inspirations from the 2014 resort lines, in keeping with this summer's colorful palette, are infused with cool hues, mixed retro prints and playful floral patterns based on the resort palettes they've already selected.

Be sure to stop by and visit them at the tradeshows,  TexWorld, July 16-18 and Indigo July 22-23 in New York, NY.  Go here to learn more about their services or contact West Coast rep, Tara Packer here. 

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TRENDS // EVENTS - CUIR A PARIS LEATHER AND FUR . S/S 2014 - A/W 2014-15

Monday, May 20, 2013

If you missed the 24th edition of CUIR A PARIS Leather and Fur  event in February, their next trade show is scheduled in 17-19 in September at the Paris Nord Villepinte for A/W 2014-15.  You can visit their site here, for details.

To view their A/W 14-15 colour range and fashion details, you can go here.  Below is a preview of their 32 page trend report for Spring/Summer 2014 and to view the entire report, go here.

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TRENDS // EVENT - MUNICHFABRICSTART . S/S 2014 AND A/W 14-15

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The MunichFabricStart is an international fabric trade fair that holds two fair trades a year features a wide range of textiles, accessories and trims at this exhibition. Their next show for A/W 14-15 is September 2013, go here to register.

You can also order their very reasonable Spring/Summer 2014 trend catalog and color card online, go here and to view their  six themes that map the trend scenario with editorial for each theme “BEAUTY FULL” – four for women’s and men’s wear and one for kids and jeanswear, respectively. Detailed information including visuals and trend colours plus relevant Pantone number can be found on the colour card as usual.

BEAUTY FULL... we position the unbelievably complex beauty of fashion and the fabrics it is made from. Textiles and styles reveal a lot of technique and know-how as well as an artistic extravaganza in the haute-couture manner. What's most exciting is that all this is realized sotto voce. It is not about showing off. It's all about joy, finesse and intelligent realization. A game between high-tech and naturalness, approach and distance, anonymity and decoration offers so much space for staging, art, and surprise.

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TRENDS // STYLESIGHT - COLOR EVOLUTION S/S 14

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Stylesight is the industry-leading content and technology solution for professionals in the style, fashion and design sectors. Stylesight's multi-lingual subscription website offers an unmatched breadth and depth of images, proprietary content and the tools to search, store, arrange and share. To learn more about their services and sign up for their subscription, go here.

Here is a complimentary highlight of their Color Evolution S/S 14 trend forecast report excerpt for Men's and Women's.  To view the images larger, simply select an image and a slideshow format will appear.

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TRENDS // INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE REPORT . DIGITAL IMMERSION - SUMMER 2014

Monday, April 8, 2013

The International Textile Report, Digital Immersion is a comprehensive trend information for Summer 2014 trends for womenswear. The publication includes the textile and fashion market on womenswear reports, street fashion, designer shows, styling and color trends as well as fabric and print ideas, trade fair reports. To order your copy, go here.

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TRENDS + TEXTILE // PATTERN PEOPLE . A/W 2013 & SPRING 2014

Friday, March 22, 2013

Pattern People is a surface design studio founded by designers Claudia Brown and Jessie Whipple Vickery. Their studio provides a collection of thousands of ready-made print designs available for immediate use on apparel, paper products, beauty packaging, accessories, interiors and more.  They are also available for commissioned design and can develop to your project's specifications.  

Check out their daily surface design inspirations on their blog, here for many great inspirations.  Below is one of their more recent posts on their observation of A/W 2013 runways, curated by Claudia Brown.

You can also now download the Print and Color Overview for Spring 2014 here.

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TRENDS // COLLEZIONI . S/S 2014 + A/W 2014-15

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Collezioni Trends latest issue is a comprehensive information on S/S 2014 and A/W 2014-15 materials. In this issue you will find colours and inspirations for A/W 2014-15 and fabrics, accessories for S/S 2014.  You'll also find several reports from Milano Unica, Premiere Vision and Texworld shows. To order your copy now, go here.

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