Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Spring 2011 Fashion Week almost done

Designers show their collections, or what they design for people to wear, during Fashion Week. Fashion Week is always one season ahead, about 6 months, so though we are just thinking about Fall, they showed Fall clothes in the summer. The process of designing before the season is called trend forecasting: just like weather forecasting, designers try to predict what we would like to wear and how to make their clothes different than clothes from before.

References are clothes designed before that designers study then decide how to make it different for today. For example my first blog was about how we're seeing the 1960's, '70's, and '80's. How did I know? Women have worn suits for a long time: 1960's suits were skirt suits, 1970's suits were meanswear suits, 1980's suits were power suits (with big shoulders). Aren't we seeing all that now? The difference is that the skirts are less balloon-y than in the '60's, the pants are not as wide-legged as in the '70's, and the shoulders are not as big as in the '80's.

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