Trend Zeitgeist: what's next for cutting edge?

[rangerrick14]

Ok guys it is obviouse today that with all the celeb fashion and mass branding and teeny boppers thinking jeans and a camisole with high heels is the epitome of fashion(if no one wears that combination again it would be to soon) we need a new movement a new place a new look to shake the fashion world and to remind the public of what is fashion and what is not. So what could we do to change it?

 

[susie_bubble]

Why have specify a new 'look' or a 'movement'? I think there needs to be shake-up in mentality The best way to remind the public of what fashion is to let them discover fashion for themselves and for them not to be swayed/forced by advertisers, magazines or celebs into something. And why do the public need to be reminded anyway - if they think a cami and jeans is the epitome of fashion, then that could just be their inclination. Alas, not everyone is as fashion-savvy as TFS'ers and there's nothing wrong with that.

 

[softgrey]

Ok guys it is obviouse today that with all the celeb fashion and mass branding and teeny boppers thinking jeans and a camisole with high heels is the opidimee of fashion(if no one wears that combination again it would be to soon) we need a new movement a new place a new look to shake the fashion world and to remind the public of what is fashion and what is not. So what could we do to change it?

i believe the word you seek is epitome...
dictionary.com...it's a good thing...

it HAS changed around here...
now it's ballet slippers, leggings and a trapeze tunic...
very sort of mary tyler moore on the dick van **** show...
it's a bit retro...sort of late 50's early 60's...
sort of audrey hepburn...
with a splash of english mod-(a nod to 60's givenchy)-
**i think we have nicolas ghesquiere to thank for that-due to his balenciaga 'revival' show

i like it...it's cute and comfy!!!

check here to see what i mean...
www.anthropologie.com

not so sure about all the platforms that are being shown for FALL though...
who can honestly wear them>??

 

[susie_bubble]

^Yes, I believe that new mood has taken over too........

 

[rangerrick14]

It's not that I don't want people to discover fashion on their own, if anything I want that to happen more instead of people being swayed by their favorite celebrities. Yeah some of them have style but the rest are just rich hooker chic or trash chic. I just want back a time that I missed because of my birth date. A time when fashion was electric. When it was more driven by the whims of designers and editors than people who just see it as a paycheck. If fashion had no money to be made I would still wanna do it when I graduate from high school, because the feel I get from a runway show is priceless to me. If I could live off it I would make clothes and let people wear them for free just to get my sense of beauty out their too the public. To give an alternate sense of what is chic and cool to people who want it.

And forgive my spelling I am in a rush.

 

[stacyyyy]

i believe the word you seek is epitome...
dictionary.com...it's a good thing...

it HAS changed around here...
now it's ballet slippers, leggings and a trapeze tunic...

thats been around since this time last year where i am.and doesnt seem to be budging.although now theyr manufacturing cut off tights where before people just cut up old ones.

 

[Lena]

^ right, leggins has been around since a year ago and did not really catch up for fw06 or for ss06..

maybe they will work better for fw06.07, even though i doubt it, nobody looks cool in this style ..

over here camisoles have been substituded by 'empire line' t-shirts, and volume blouses as for the jeans, they are skinny, raw and dark, worn with wedges
(platforms, even though they flooded the shops didnt work so well over here)
the 'faded/ruined' element has moved from jeans to t-shirs and tops now

as for a 'new wave' i think the i-dont-care-how-i-look attitude is been catching up, the more outrage, the better.. young kids just want to have lots and lots of fun, they dont care what the catwalks 'direct' and if they can they just go 'against' the 'establishment' trend direction (makes sense to me)

 

[rangerrick14]

I guess it's where I live, see I come from the south (Arkansas)and while we have a few souls who venture into the realm of fashion and having style the rest are all more concerned with looking like everybody else to be popular instead of having their own concept of a look.

 

[VICTIM]

here (London) it seems to be that the youth are moving on from that whole ballet flats 60's thing to really crazy colours like neon jeans and glow in the dark t-shirts look at the band KLAXONS and designers like Casette Playa, Marjan Pejoski (sp?) and Deryk Walker, going ot clubs like Family, All You Can Eat and Anti-Social. though maybe this is a sort of subculture i'm not entirely sure. oh and reading SUPER SUPER magazine

 

[ultramarine]

Hum ... women in here are wearing a lot of embellished shoes ... no idea why but there´s like a quasi-arabesque thing going on ... its on the detail .. not the shapes ... from bags to shoes to tops to bottoms ... the weather has been uber crazy lately thought so I guess this will dramatically change once the rainy seasons gets on full swing ...

 

[Pastry]

everything you said are fine points rangerrick...
i too, think of the way people dressed..even in the 1970's (not that i was around..but research and personal accounts) used to dress. they put themsleves together. people ironed their pants

BUT the reality is that only a small percentage of the population really knows hows to dress to reflect the zeitgeist. or only a small portion is WILLING. not everybody in the 1960's was a hippie having love-ins with body painting and drugs. as a matter of fact, that counterculture didn't really take off.

one thing i AM NOT sure about, if people in the recent past were so into logos. If i had to mention one thing that grinds my teeth about today's fashion it's logos. not jsut logo bags or clothes, but what they represent.

there is a coney island street style feature on style.com right now...every article of clothes they mention is brand name...or "vintage"'. even "vintage" is a logo now. why not just say "sun-bleached dress" instead of "chanel dress"

it's cool to like certain brand names, but to me, the association is with their fantasy (lanvin, ann dem., even prada have a world they like to create) and it's personal. by no means is it for other people to know.

so if i had to summarize this, i'd say that nowadays too many people don't dress for personality..their body and soul. they dress for everyone around them.

and that's a problem, imo. once more of us can find what works for us, regardless of specific trends (which is a whole other thread..), then we'll have a new wave in fashion.



edit: speaking of logos, why do you have a huge chanel logo in your avatar? it seems to be going against your topic here..

 

[fixoid]

Viva La Myspace !

 

[ultramarine]

no entiendo (the post above me)

 

[rangerrick14]

It's not that I am a logo addict it's more that I love what Coco Chanel stood for. I don't necesarilly like what chanel is now but for what it stood for in the past is to me what al designers should remember and in some way in their own style they should try to emulate.

 

[gius]

It's not that I am a logo addict it's more that I love what Coco Chanel stood for. I don't necesarilly like what chanel is now but for what it stood for in the past is to me what al designers should remember and in some way in their own style they should try to emulate.

Was it to create clothing one could feel comfortable in? Something easy-to-wear? (hence the simple cuts she was known for)

 

[Pastry]

^there are some GREAT photos of her available! i love the one where she wears a headband with a bow.
don't have to be 5 years old to pull that one off! =)

 

[TekkaMakki]

Personally, I think that most of my friends have become slightly more fashion conscious in the past few years (but maybe that's just cause I can't stop yakking about it), and I've also noticed that mass-market stores seem to be more geared towards trends and make more fun clothing than they used to. So we're seeing more options now from big stores like H&M, Mango, Zara, etc. where most of the people in Belgium shop. The problem is just that most people don't really care about what they wear, as long as it fits them and it's acceptable to the people around them. People are less focused on making a statement in fashion and just concentrate on other things, like music. But then they all end up looking like clones - I always laugh when I see three people, *all* in stripy t-shirts simultaneously going down the stairs. Most people just don't have the imagination or the energy to create their own look... Any ideas on how to change that? (Btw, I feel like I've gone completely off topic... )

 

[softgrey]

i'm pretty sure we
HAVE a topic on (non)comformity if you guys want to discuss that....
have a search or start a new thread...

 

[kisa]

I think if you mean like how things 'went' (in the most general way) boho, mod-inspired etc. I think the next one will be grunge. I guess it kind of works, sleek mod is the opposite of ornate boho, and grungy grunge is the opposite sleek of mod?

 

[Diorling]

While fashion is trending towards grunge. I personally am feeling the Flouro-80's, I heart flourescents, paired with the right things they can look incredibly modern and fresh. I think it's a natural evolution of mod. Also the appreciation of silhouette is coming back in, now its more than just a defined waist. Boxy jackets paired with skinny jeans with tall boots, babydoll tops paired with barely there leggings and platforms.

Im praying that Grunge does not come back, though I fought boho kicking and screaming...(Boho was very short lived though)