Like for every season, the tendencies foreshadowed during the summer season are confirmed by the anticipations of the fall-winter 2018-2019 collections, that are characterized by their clear and determined tone.

Nuances

Apropos clear and determined tones, for the season F/W 2018-2019 the actual trend colors are not reduced on a few must have shades! According to the seasonal color palette Pantone, it is about seventeen color variations, while the different shades of blue and the warm colors (which reach from burgundy to mustard yellow) dominate. Petrol, burgundy and mustard yellow, thus, but also surprisingly lilac, orange and lime, typical colors of the warm season, which instead are offered for the winter, especially in combination with another untypical color during this period: white!

This new entries for the winter define even more the tendency to mix the seasonal colors, by playing with dark colors for the summer and pastel colors for the winter, and in this way invalidating the classical separation between summer and winter color shades.

Fabrics and materials

Damask, brocade and jacquard make part of the seasonal trends: they evoke the antique vintage cushioning or an oriental inspiration, the winterly fabrics are a real celebration of colors and patterns, which are predominantly geometrical and floral.
Another strength during this season is the opalescent effect given by the velvet, chenille and suede, a real must have especially for accessories like bags and wallets, particularly when declined in inventive colors and combined to multicolored floral embroideries.
Beside of this the metallic materials in the shades of gold and silver continue to run riot on the catwalks, even if they were already present during the last season and exploded in an ample choice of inventive possibilities for the whole summer.

Apropos gold and silver: for the winter is confirmed the predominance of rivets in a rock-chic style. Small silver- and gold-colored buttons make for accessories of a clearly punk style, combined to floral patterns of a bon ton taste.

Design

The fall-winter 2018/19 provides a celebration of structured and geometrical forms, with help of the materials firmness described before. If it is about clothes or fashion accessories like women’s bags and wallets, the fashion is extremely geometrical and full of conspicuous details.
Within the world of accessories, indeed, there can be found extremely small or large dimensions, while leaving behind the medium sizes and pointing on the inventiveness of the forms as a strength.
During the winter also the bumbag will definitely enter into the ranges of the indispensable accessories, both for men and for women: the smaller dimensions as also the possibility to be carried around at the hips made this useful accessory a real must have, that can be worn even above the coat! Versatile within its forms and colors, for the fall-winter are foreseen particularly inventive and conspicuous variations, like those in fluorescent colors or even in PVC.

Look

The combination of different colors, materials and designs generate inevitably a recognizable style, that will be the real protagonist of the winter.

Like for the summer, the ethnical style will be again predominating with its embroideries, fringes and multicolored materials. Apropos fringes and multicolor: also the western and patchwork styles will come back, for a winter with a clearly informal and inventive style.
Also the 80s will definitely come back with its metallic materials, the geometrical forms and the fluorescent colors for the brave ones. The winter will also be more chic and elegant with the evocation of the 20s and 30s with fringes, pearls and laces, declined both in the evergreen color black, but also in bordeaux and gold.

Anything but grey season! The fall/winter 2018-2019 announces itself full of surprises with style and inventiveness, for a look that is destined to not pass unobserved.