Trend Alert | Tropical Prints

Take the great escape to an exotic tropical paradise  with the biggest new trend this season. Hothouse florals and tropical patterns are blooming everywhere from trousers, shirts to dresses, and no, you’re not seeing double - mirrored prints are the newest way into the trend. Head-to-toe clashing combos might seem OTT, but this season more is more.

Trend update: Denim x Denim

The denim on denim mayhem continues on the August 2011 issue of Indie  with Leebo Freeman photographed by Armin Morbach and styled by Ingo Nahrwold.

#TrendUpdate: Double Denim.

While you might find it best to pull off the denim on denim  trend by pairing two different shades of denim, the denim division editorial by men's style Australia lead to me  rethinking the idea... although tricky, I however feel that pairing the same shade of denim (whether dark,light or bleached) might work.

• adding detail to one shade. (like leather)
• create a degree of separation (darker belt or tie)
• pairing it up (simple fitted blazer)

well I might be committing fashion suicide, see the editorial and tell me you do not get the same feeling. (see GQ.co.za on modern ways to wear denim on denim)

Trend Update: Trend for summer women.

Colour, maximalism, minimalish and novelty. These are some of the major trends that scream summer.

Trend update:Dr. Martens

They say a smell can bring back childhood memories, whether be your mothers horrible cooking or your dirty childhood bestfriend. Like a smell Dr Martens triggers the best of my childhood memories, the memories on how I got my first pair to memories of jumping in mud paddles. I admire the new girly girl concept but I would rather stick to the good old fashion classic black boot.

Trend update: Summer trends for Women.

I recently compiled a number of summer fashion trends from various designers for men (see: previous post) and looking at the recent looks for women from the H&M magazine (styled by Josh Olins and photographed by Kasia Struss), I was taken aback by the similarities.My initial thoughts were, fashion trend for women were way more forward and better than man, I feel somewhat ashamed to say i was wrong.

images from fashiongonerogue.com

Trend update: looking back SUMMER 2010/2011

This summer has certainly been my favourite when it came to trends, there was so much on offer, one would have to be  spoiled for choice. I managed  to sum up a montage from various Designer of what would be, my fashion memories of summer10/11, from the season look at the bright side of life to botanical and painterly prints, from my personal favorite*  nautical trend sailing away towards new horizons to the seasons retro safari trend, from the 60s rocker dude to sports luxe. How can such beautiful fashion memories fade away?

(Read: The compiled trend below are timeless,thus you can rock em* next summer.)