Womenswear Fall 2008: Fashion Trends Analysis

In a series of wonderful posts, FashionReporters.com, proposes their analysis of Fall 2008 Trends. Fashion writer Jean Paul Cauvin gives his insider’s views after Paris Fashion Week. Fashion professionnals and fashionistas alike will get a clearer picture of the main womenswear trends after reading for instance :

- ”Fall 2008 Runway Trend : The Cinched Romantic Amazon ”  is where our mentor analyzes the silhouette observed at some of the most influential Fashion houses ( Chanel, Lanvin, Balenciaga, Gaultier) and some “edgy” young designers, all setting the same tone (Haider Ackermann, Ann Demeulemeester). For girls and women who want to acquire something of this new “Parisienne”,  the article is a series of  wonderful tips! [more]

- “Fall 2008 Runway Trend: Volumed Architecture ” If you want to look “à la mode” this next fall and winter, you might want to add “architectured” pieces to your wardrobe, helping you to display at best what your body can show and recreate a shape with an innovative twist on other parts. Check how designers at Givenchy, Balenciaga, Karl lagerfeld, Rue du Mail, Atsuro Tayama, Wunderkind, Sonia Rykiel and Alexander McQueen have all proposed this feature for the season in their own  personnal way. [more]

- “Fall 2008 Runway Trend: Accents of Haute Couture” signals how many houses doing ready-to-wear and Haute Couture have enhanced in these collections their Haute Couture identity (Chanel, Christian Lacroix), but not only, many young designers have done the same. It is a btrend in Paris as Luxury ready-toèwear seems to be replacing slowly but decisively Haute Couture. [more]

- “Fall 2008 Runway Trend: Art Deco a la Minimalist ” is seeing in this last post concerning the trends at Paris Fashion Week the influence of Erté and Art Deco on many runways; ^particularly at Rue du Mail with designer Martine Sitbon. But also at many other houses where this trend was “sprinkled” over the collections, including at Chanel, Giambattista Valli, Lanvin by Alber Elbaz. [more]

~ by fashionmafia on March 12, 2008.