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Trend forecasting / Lenzing Textile & Color Trends Autumn/Winter 2010/11

The crucial need of co-existing between nature and urban landscapes is reflected in the color pallets and the stories from where they come: urban concrete and formal darks meet nature's mid-tones and bright shades. Eco-fashion, lo-fi, laboratory-grown fabrics, food fashion, fusing product and garment, beetroot-dying, victimless leather, bone ivory, up-cycling and all the other experiments concentrating on environment issues, are so important; some ideas will eventually end up as valid solutions to problems we fight with, some are indispensable because of the discussion they rise.
5 key palettes from Lenzing

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Trend forecasting / Pantone Fall 2010 Color Report


Building on the color palette from spring, this season's offerings include innovative takes on fundamental basics, as well as transporting, lively colors that conjure images of travel and adventure, whether real or aspirational.
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Fashion / Marc Jacobs Fall 2010


Drab is stylishly. Modest swot with glasses — a new fashion heroine.
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Trend forecasting / 2010 will be turquoise


If leading color guide Pantone is to be believed, 15-5519 Turquoise's «serene qualities of blue» and «invigorating aspects of green» will be defining next year's mood. According to the experts, turquoise is «believed to be a protective talisman, a color of deep compassion and healing, and a color of faith and truth». «We also find that Turquoise represents an escape to many,» said Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, «taking them to a tropical paradise that is pleasant and inviting, even if only a fantasy.»
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