Fashion Trends & Forecasting for Apparel & Accessories

Comprehensive analysis of the Men’s AW catwalk collections and presentation shows, provides a definitive trend outline for the season. This report reveals the new silhouettes and what’s influencing the looks, from cultural shifts, to dips into the past. The team take an in-depth look into the latest graphics, prints and fabric innovations to emerge, targeting the most commercially viable and inspiring designs. This season uniforms move into survival mode, tailoring is refined and shows an increase in volume, graphics reflect our highly visual culture, rock-star poets draw a fuzzy line between genders and casuals get a reality check.

The pre-fall collections have just finished, and our team of experts have analysed every show to compile a complete and comprehensive trend report for the entire season. These emerging themes have been selected for their power to inspire and drive design forward. Trends cover all areas of womenswear and include analysis of silhouette, proportion, styling, fabrication, surface pattern and decoration. Pre-Fall collections are an increasingly important part of the fashion calendar and add relevant insights into the coming season. The report is highly visual with special attention to styles that add a fresh and exciting new vocabulary to the current fashion conversation.

A unique and detailed analysis of the latest accessory trends emerging from the New York, London, Milan & Paris runways. The report kicks off with a series of actionable moodboards, which offer the latest trend directions across all product areas. Subsequent pages are divided by product to analyse the connections between different styles, and provide inspiration for designers to move forward with their own collections.

The four cities have spoken – and Paris has the last word. Definitive trends have developed through the season with each city adding their own exciting deviations. From New York’s Sugar Coated and London’s Sugar Rush to the fragile pieces in Come Undone in Milan, the hyper feminine trend ends with a hi-tech twist in Paris, with Sheer Bliss.
Milan took an almost literal Flash Back to the sixties and seventies, similar to Reverse Thrust in Paris. London kept the look grounded in Real Appeal with a normcore angle, and New York went for a soft retro spin with a modern approach in Offbeat Redux.The sporty conversation jumps between, an urban styled Rubber Bullets in New York to hi-low combinations in Milan and London. Paris weighs in with some heavyweight sporty looks that dip into the eighties rave scene.
The hand craft trend has been gaining momentum through each of the fashion capitals. New York hinted at it with pretty fringing in the Sugar Coated trend, London exploded with Tribal Tech, and Milan combined their crafted looks into hippy-styled retro looks in Flash Back. Paris adds its own modern boho look with lots of surface pattern, handworked craft and texture in Tribal Hand.
The dynamic slicing away of fabric into cutouts and the creating of acute diagonal lines have combined with graphic blocks of colour and sharp tailoring in most cities. Paris provides the most compellingly sculpted tailoring in City Limits, while Tech Crunch in New York and Slash/Slash in London push the look forward with technical fabrics.
The Military angle dips in an out of other key trends. In New York it combines with the urban sportswear of Rubber Bullets, while In London’s Real Appeal and Milan’s Straightforward, the tailoring mixes with uniforms. Protest March in Paris provides the strongest case for the military trend with combinations of workwear, uniforms and lots of military detailing.