Print Me Pretty

JOSEPHINE ANDREW

INTRODUCTION‘Print Me Pretty’ is going to be the theme of 2012’s womenswear garments. Fab-ric prints come back around every year in a wide selection of colours and styles, but 2012 is looking promising for the fab-ric print idea to take off. With four key trends selected, there is something for everyone, from the most subtle and romantic looks too bright and bold loud prints.LAYER UPThis trend looks at print morphing - merg-ing two contrasting prints together to get a mixed look - imagine dip dyeing with pat-terns instead of block colours. FLORA & FAURNAThink into the wild of 2010 with a natural British kick. This trend’s focus point is wild British nature. Think badgers, foxes and little tweeting birds. FADED ROSEWe have all seen the bright floral prints repeat themselves year after year, but this trend is the aftermath. Faded Rose looks at the neutral rose colours such as peach and cream in a beautiful romantic way, but don’t forget the power of the woman and ex-pect to see some structured garments sport-ing this print.IT’S HISTORYTake your imagination back in time to the Victorians and remember all those beauti-ful forgotten prints. This trend looks at how French toile and baroque prints are go-ing to make a break into garments and be the next big look for the colder months of 2012.

CONTENTS

1) Introduction2) Contents3) Layer Up4) Layer Up key pieces5) Layer Up influences6) Layer Up colours7) Flora & Fauna 8) Flora & Fauna key pieces9) Flora and Fauna influences10) Flora & Fauna colours11) Faded Rose 12) Faded Rose key pieces13) Faded Rose influences14) Faded Rose colours15) Its History 16) Its History key pieces17) Its history influences18) Its History colours 19) – 22 References

fLORA & fAUNAWILDLIFE, NATURE, NATURAL COLOURS, BIRDS, PLANTS, SUBLIMATION PRINTING, COUNTRYSIDE, OUTDOORS, CREAMS, NUDES, PLAIN, SIMPLE,

RUSTIC.

KEY EXAMPLES

This trend reflects British nature and wildlife and brings the freedom of the countryside onto clothes. Neutral colours will support this look, with animal prints in all shapes and sizes littering the gar-ments. Animal patterns and prints are a re-occurring trend, but this time look to the future of the out-doors and rural countryside. Nature will come to-gether with fashion to create beautiful frenzy of the outdoors with subtle a hint of country lifestyle. This look will be popular for the winter months where it can be layered up with textured knits and black and white fabrics.

KEY EXAMPLESMulberry are showing signs of this trend in their latest collec-tion with their beautiful bird prints over a beige fabric. The wild garden birds are brightly col-oured in giving the fab-ric a quirky edge.

This is an ex-ample of what can be expect-ed for 2012, graphic im-ages of Britsh wild animals printed on to a range of fabrics and colours. This example of a badger jumper is very mini-mal but is ex-actly what the trend is about .

INfLUENCESThis fabric print trend is influ-enced by wild

British nature. Looking at collec-

tions from last year where the

idea was first in-troduced shows how this trend origi-

nated and then developed; moving away from fur and

rustic materi-als to prints of the animals which

influenced the trend. Flora and Fauna means the

plants and animals found in a spe-cific area- this being the Brit-

ish Isles for this particular trend.The country side

and the great out-doors all help

to build up this look, with prints

of the animals plastered across

the garments.

PANTONE 154C

PANTONE 2C

PANTONE 5215C

PANTONE 4515C

PANTONE 7518C

PANTONE 447C PANTONE 729C

PANTONE 121C

PANTONE COOL GREY 6C

KEY COLOURSThe main colours in this trend are autumn neu-trals, golden browns, deep greens and a few pheasant yellows to brighten the fabric. But many prints will be black and white. Sub-colours are more subtle tones of greens and browns, and the occasional deep mauve. The will be few bright and bold colours in the trend, as it’s all about na-ture and natural colours and prints so all col-ours will represent the British Wildlife theme.

The key colours in the trend reflect those of the animals influencing it and appearing on the fabrics. The colours also link to the habitats in which the nature featured is found, such as forests, hedgerows and fields.

FADED ROSENEAUTRAL, BOLD, BRAVE, CREAM, BLACK, PALE, PAINTINGS, HISTORIC, DELICATE, ROSES, FLOW-ERS, SKETCH, SUBTLE, FINE, WILTING, MID SEA-SON, INERT, THICK FABRICS, DECORATIVE, ROMAN-

TIC, SENTIMENTAL, SOFT COLOURS.

Florals always come back around in fashion in all different shapes and sizes- but 2012 is going to have a new front to the floral fabric patterns- moving away from bright colours to deeper more subtle patterns. You can expect to see fabrics covered with huge rustic roses, in deep creams and browns. Some prints will be in black and white; with various faded effects on the garments as if the roses are gradually disappearing. A designer to look at for inspiration is Lanvin – beautiful and feminine some of his pieces for the following winter demonstrate this trend perfectly.

KEY EXAMPLES

This dress by Lanvin is a beautiful ex-ample, the slightly distorted images of

the roses in the light brown/beige

colour compliment the black base colour of the dress well. The all over print fea-tures the same image of the rose just at a different angles, it is really effective and a bold statement to make on such an

elegant dress.

This is an exam-ple of how the trend will filter own into high street stores. The idea of a huge can-vas paint-ing being displayed across a t-shirt is a popular look for this trend.

This demon-strates how the trend will be popu-lar within the younger audience, and it can be simpli-fied for all garments. The vintage in-spired paint-ed images will have a beautiful and delicate look to them, and create roman-tic yet brave garments.

INFLUENCESThis trend is

strongly influ-enced by ooking back in tim to

the delicate life paintings of art-

ists 100’2 of years ago. The victori-ans were passion-ate for gardening and roses, so look for old pictures from that eara to inspire you. Nick Knights Flora pho-tography is aso a key inspiration, the close up pic-tures of roses and other flowers shows

the lovely deep pinks and peaches

of the flowers, and how fine the leaves

are.

INFLUENCES KEY COLOURS

PANTONE WARM GREY 1C

PANTONE 409C

PANTONE COOL GREY 9C

PANTONE 246C

PANTONE 7518C

PANTONE 749C

PANTONE 411C

PANTONE 1675C

PANTONE 425C

Black and white are going to be popular in this trend, as greys and other subtle colours such as creams and browns will be gradually introduced later on. The warm tones have a definite autumn feel to them, complimenting the Flora and Fauna trend well. The flowers will all be of an artis-tic style, so the colours will compliment this in natural shades.

Some vibrant reds and oranges will appear, and park peaches as the roses are just past bloom. These will be complimented with darker neutral colours to tone down the bright shades. Creams will be good background colours for the fabrics, and will add a summery hint to the garments.

IT’S HISTORYDELICATE, LACE, HOSTORIC, TOILE DE JOUR, FRENCH STYLE, BAROQUE PRINTS, BEAUTIFUL,

UNIQUE, DETAILED, TIMELINE, DARK ROMANCE, AU-TUMN, WINTER, FAIRY TALE, IMAGINATIVE, CREAM,

BLACK, BLUE.

‘It’s History’ looks at historic fabric prints and styles modernised to fit into contemporary fabric designs for 2012. Traditional textiles such as lace will be seen in a printed version. Temporally London has used this idea in their most recent collection, in which garments were outlined with a printed lace trim. Other prints such as Baroque and Toile de Jour will be used on garments to bring back a historic romantic feel. Dark colours will be used - so this look will be seen more in the early months of 2012. There will be a lot of black and creams, both col-ours used a lot in past centuries.

KEY EXAMPLES This is an example of how the Toile de Jour fabric will be used in 2012. The beautiful traditional French fabric is set to make a comeback - it got increasingly popular in 2000 for upholstery, and will now make its way into the fashion market.

The pat-terns will stay the same as the origo-nal prints made in France similar to this sam-ple.

The colours may change a little to fit in with the trends but the gen-eral print will stay the same. It will be popular on struc-tured gar-ments such as skirts and summer

this beautiful unique garment by ColleTte dinnigan shows how the trend can be translated into a more deli-cate fashion.

The dress has in-spirational lace and baroque pat-terns together to create a unique delicate look-ing garment. The historic prints have been used well to make a modern and fash-ionable piece. The colours are very dark and subtle but work well with the historic aspect of the trend and compliment the prints well.

INFLUENCESThis trend is influenced by patterns and clothing in history. Such patterns as Baroque are the strongest in-fluences, and looking at how they were used and what colours helps to create this trend.

Lace is a big influ-ence for the trend, it will be modernised by have the pattern printed onto fabric in-stead of it being the actual tex-tile itself. Looking at garments and fashion from the Victo-rian times will help the under-standing of this trend, and tak-ing ideas of how the gar-ments are structured to show off the patterns will be good inspiration for design-ers us-ing these prints.

KEY COLOURS

The base colours of this trend are very neutral, with different shades of grey and green. The top colours are a lot brighter and compliment the plainer ones, warm pinks and terracotta’s work well with the pale shades. Creams will go with the dark greys and blacks to create a romantic historic theme to the fabric.

PANTONE 719 C

PANTONE 644 C

PANTONE 7522 C

PANTONE 689 C

PANTONE 5793 C

PANTONE 7536 C

PANTONE COOL GREY 7C

PANTONE WARM GREY 11C

PANTONE 426 C

Warm reds and oranges compliment the trend well for the historic look as these colours were very popular with upholstery in the Victorian times, and were used with the baroque and toile de jour prints. Sky blue and cream is the traditional colour for toile de jour, and this will stay in the trend but the print will also come in modern bright colours.

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FLORA & FAUNA

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FADED ROSE

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IT’S HISTORY

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