It’s been three weeks since getting back to London from my Manila homecoming and was in crazy mode settling in my new flat and arranging my electricity/water/council tax/wifi. Anyway, since starting my second year in Istituto Marangoni NOW as a Masters student (haha, proud?) we’ve been tasked to do a Spring-Summer ’12 trend analysis on the four major fashion weeks for my Research Methods class and pick out the strongest trends for the upcoming season. I did a few mood boards and chose to focus on two major trends for each city.
What I love most about London is the strong floral and tribal/graphical prints from the Mary Katrantzou and Peter Pilotto collections. Prints are something that I have difficulty getting my head around as I tend to go for more basic non-colors and neutrals on an everyday basis, but the detailing of each piece was just so amazing I might actually start investing more on a few printed dresses or tops. Another favorite was Christopher Bailey’s awesome tribe-inspired Burberry collection! I mean, who doesn’t love Burberry. The fabrication was just so refreshing to see on a very English heritage brand, but loved their interpretation of weaves and use of what I think is raffia and wooden beads for its shoes and accessories. It’s my dream job and part of the reason why I choose London over every other city. I would imagine each piece would be something of a collector’s item in the future. Personally, I cannot wait for the day I can get my hands on another Burberry coat, one can dream.
Something I’m a little more accustomed to is the pastel trend as seen in Jonathan Saunders and Roksanda Ilincic. I think that what would differ in the upcoming season is the concentration on a pastel blue and yellow (also with a bit of cyan) rather than the usual pinks and beiges one would refer to with anything pastel. The cuts were relaxed and feminine and actually, is a perfect seque for the Paris shows.
My London Fashion Week Spring-Summer ’12 Review and Favorites
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Side note: Blue, Yellow and Orange–very big in 2012. In the next couple of days I’ll be adding the research on the Paris, Milan and New York shows. I need to keep up with my promise of writing more if not about my life, then on what I’m learning in school.
Oh and one more thing: My work-in-progress draping project for Pattern Cutting class. I’m very excited with my first draping on the stand dress, and I suppose I got into the whole my tutor is a Vivienne Westwood pattern-cutter and I want to do something wild to impress her but now that it’s taking on this very geometric and 3D shape I’m thinking oh my! what did I get myself into. It’s gonna take a while for me how to figure out the 3D pattern on paper with this dress. I hope it comes out well. :3 Kagulo!

Cheers from Luhnduntown!