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Resort 24 print trends: python, checks and stripes: classics with a twist

There are certain prints that pop up every runway season. In particular, animal prints, stripes, checks and plaids can be so varied that designers are free to experiment with them and present fresh looks; plus consumers find such structural patterns reassuring. For the resort season, there were many snake prints, a wide variety of plaids and...

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Trend alert: Clashing prints

This summer is all about mixing and matching graphics, giving silhouettes an original twist, both unexpected and elegant. Why choose between tie dye and leopard when they can be worn together? The pandemic gave way to matching sets and co-ords, with tops and bottoms designed to complement each other in terms of colour, pattern, and style. This...

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Christine Boland: from forecast to reality

Which forecasted trend for FW21 is actually making it big on the highstreet? Trend analyst Christine Boland gives a retrospective review. In ‘Alchemy of the Times to Come’ forecast for AW2021, one of the four trends I foresaw, based on the current social developments and international catwalk shows, was Poetic Heritage. It demonstrates how we...

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SS22 Fashion Trend Snack: the top 5 prints

Of all the trends for next season, Christine Boland’s Trend Snack gives a ‘bite size’ report of the 5 must-do colours, fabrics, textures, patterns, silhouettes etc to incorporate into your fashion collection. Today: it’s all about the prints. #1 Shadow effects as seen @ Fendi & Victoria Beckham Image credit: Fendi SS22, Catwalkpictures, Pexels...

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McQueen Creators - Print creation with Simon Ungless

A few weeks ago the house Alexander McQueen announced a new project on their social media channels. With the goal of encouraging creativity and starting conversation between the McQueen teams and collaborators, from their design studio to universities and students, through a series of digital tutorials. The audience is invited to share their...

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Evolution Amsterdam: A visit to the new fair specialized in textile designs

In the West of Amsterdam, inside two red-brick buildings of a former gas factory, thousands of poster-sized paper sheets printed with different patterns were lying across the tables of the stalls. At the start of September, 65 design studios were showing their work at Evolution, the new fair for textile pattern design that drew 400 visitors to...

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Video: How to style the print trend

Highsnobiety's Itemized segment takes a look at how to best style the new all-over print trend coming up this fall. Source: Highsnobiety, YouTube.

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Key Womenswear Catwalk Print Directions Fall Winter 2019-20

Trendstop brings FashionUnited readers a first look at the key stories inspiring womenswear print direction for Fall Winter 2019-20. The Trendstop team give FashionUnited readers an exclusive look at three essential themes seen on the international runways that will be informing womenswear print and graphics into Fall Winter 2019-20 and beyond....