TRENDS // TEXTILE REPORT NO. 2/2014 - SUMMER 2015

Here is the latest Textile Report No. 2/2014 for Summer 2015.  This publication has an extensive trend information for the textile and fashion market.  The trend focus are on women's wear, street fashion, designer collections, trade fair reports, colour and styling trends which includes fabrics and print designs. 

To order your copy, go here.

DESIGN COMPETITION // FRONT ROW SOCIETY - ARTISANAL BOTANIST

Editorial via Front Row Society

CREATIVE BRIEF

Submission Deadline: 15 February, 2014, 6pm CET
Voting Starts: 16 February, 2014, 6pm CET

Botany… the world of plants. Another florals challenge? Think again! Our challenge might be botany themed but please steer away from kitsch florals or cutesy rose patterns. For this design challenge, we are looking for the darker side of botany, the side that scratches and stings. Take a look at vintage textiles and botanical illustration, with their detailed pencil drawings and fine line patterns. 

Think about the botanists of the past, bravely setting off into the unknown with their jars and notebooks, crawling through jungles, crossing oceans and navigating deserts to discover and classify the flowers, trees and herbs that have helped shape history. For this challenge we want you to be that adventurer! 

As always, don't forget that your print might need to be adjusted to fit the appropriate template. All templates are marked with design specifications to help you get your design just right. Please note that all FRS templates may differ slightly from final manufacturing specifications, so make sure your print is versatile and flexible enough for production.

What can you win?

Each winner receives a one-off immediate prize of 200€. plus one of their products when it arrives in stock. But that is not all - each & every time we sell 500 pieces of your design, you will receive an additional €200. This means that FRS can continue to embody the spirit of fashion democracy, rewarding our top designs again...and again...and again! We will also conduct an interview with the winner, publicizing their design across the fashion community in Berlin and worldwide.

To learn more about the competition or submit your designs, go here.

TRENDS // WOOLMARK BRAND - SPRING/SUMMER 2015

The Woolmark brand is the world’s best-known textile fibre brand and is owned by The Woolmark Company, the world’s leading wool textile organization. The value of the brand is well established and highly regarded across the world in the apparel, interior textiles and home laundry sectors. To learn more about the company and brand, go here. 

The Wool Lab, a seasonal guide to the most inspiring wool trends and best products, is created to inspire and inform fashion professionals regarding the infinite potential of Merino wool. A trendbook and a sourcing guide, the tool is the result of extensive research undertaken by The Woolmark Company through its global network to select the best wool products worldwide and identify the emerging trends emerging from fashion, design, art, pop culture, music and other fields.

The Wool Lab is created each season in collaboration with the world’s most innovative and quality-oriented spinners and weavers. It is a collection of the most beautiful wool products, commercially available, and in line with the leading fashion and textile trends.

The tool is available free of charge and upon request for designers, manufacturers, retailers, fashion and apparel brands and to all the professionals of the fashion industry, to provide a concrete sourcing service, putting them in contact with the world’s best wool suppliers.

Below is a preview of some of their Spring/Summer 2015 guide, Balera and Elements. You can view the entire seven inspirational themes here for both Men's and Women's. 

BALERA

Inspirations

During the post-war period in Italy the balera, or dance hall, started to diffuse throughout Italy. Typical and popular dance halls, these places gathered people who wanted to rediscover life's simple pleasures and joy of living through dance after war's deprivations. The theme recalls that joy can be combined with the will of beauty and elegance in a simple and accessible way. Classic colours and fancy stripes for the men; floral prints on the ultra-feminine women dresses.

Materials

Wool combined with cotton, nylon and viscose with washed finishing. Fancy patterns and structures such as stripes, vichy, seersucker, chambray and micro check. Yarns are mouliné, mélange and crepe.

ELEMENTS

Inspirations

The theme embodies the perfect combination between fashion and architecture, where cuts and shapes of dresses are inspired by the same geometrical lines of buildings. Elements illustrates a search for cleaning and linearity, typical of Japanese minimalism, with colours inspired by building materials such as chalk and cement. Touches of green and blue complete this lucid vision as a building standing out against the sky, but with its feet concretely anchored to the ground. Focus on fabric structures that are never dull.

Materials

100 per cent wool or wool mixed with cotton, silk, linen or viscose. Structures and patterns reflect the mood of the theme: gauze, ottoman, honeycomb, ajouré, graphic jacquard. Wool Jersey is here very important, also patterned.

DESIGN COMPETITION // FRANKFURT STYLE AWARD 2014

 FRANKFURT STYLE AWARD 2014  DESIGN COMPETITION  

This year’s invitation extends the reach of the Frankfurt STYLE AWARD in the fashion & design community throughout Europe and worldwide. Students from nearly 400 fashion schools in 34 countries are invited to put their creativity and passion for fashion in the international spotlight.

UNITED DIVERSITY

We are all different yet united by our existence as human beings. We share one world. We look different, dress differently and speak different languages – but, ultimately, we are all reaching for the same stars.

The Frankfurt STYLE AWARD 2014 invites talented, up-and-coming fashion designers to submit their creations in one of three categories taking this year’s guiding theme UNITED DIVERSITY as their inspiration:

UNIFORM

While uniforms disguise differences they are also a visual symbol that identifies the wearer as a member of or having a role in a group. Successful uniforms are recognised across international borders. Reinterpret the concept of the uniform – modern, borderless or global, critical or provocative: the choice is yours! Everything is possible!

UNISEX

Open-minded, independent & unbound – nowhere are the currents of the 21st-century more clearly reflected than in the unisex category. Rigid division of roles according to gender is history. How can clothing meet the needs of both men and women while respecting the differences between them?

UNICULT

Diverse in its eccentric non-conformism, united in the adoration of essential beauty. Uniqueness should not only be expressed through being different – it should stand out by being embedded in a unifying context.

New in 2014: Freestyle first, then Compulseries – PIONEERING DENIM

Another special challenge awaits all the applicants who are nominated for the final by the jury and are invited to the Style Award Gala in Frankfurt am Main. The topic – “Pioneering Denim” – is compulsory. Fabric coupons will be provided to enable the competitors to realise their designs. It is an invitation to combine creativity and craftsmanship seamlessly within a clearly defined framework. These models will be awarded separately by the jury. The nominees will receive details of their compulsory exercise in good time.

AWARDS AND AWARDS CEREMONY:

20 participants can qualify for the final in each category. All the nominees will receive an invitation to the Style Award Gala, attendance of the final event in person is preferred. Accommodation for the finalists will be covered by the organizer. The participants can request apply for travel cost. All finalists will be informed about the details of the schedule after the preliminary round has been completed in March 2014. The prizes awarded to the three winners are as follows: 

1st place: € 1,500

2nd place: € 1,000,

3rd place: € 500. 

As well as the presentation of the award voted for by the general public, the Pioneering Denim and United Diversity awards, there are other attractive non-cash prizes and apprenticeships to be won. Here you can find further information about the prizes.

FINAL SUBMISSION: February 28, 2014

To learn more and apply for the competition, go here. 

TRENDS // FALL/WINTER 15/16 - FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

Trend Council is a fashion trend forecasting company who delivers expert analysis and design inspirations. Their team provides a great wealth of consulting services for all your company's design needs.  Trend Council focuses on the Ladies, Juniors, Mens, Young Mens and Active markets. To learn more about their services, go here.

Here is a preview of their Fall/Winter Fall 15/16 trends for Ladies - FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

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Invite night in formal wear , prom , weddings and cocktail dresses are used for . The most important feature of this dress , detailed and used in daily life compared to the dress is more elegant .
SHORT BLACK DRESS MODELSBlack Gown has a lot of advantages . Some of these poor showing , according to the concepts is that all invited . Short evening dresses are more suitable for the body -confident women . Short formal wear is also more in detail . Black short formal wear , show your back and your body slimmer . Tulle and sequin detail short formal wear elegant and understated appearance.MODELS OF LONG BLACK DRESSLong formal wear , ideal for women who want to keep their legs form of a dress . It also shows the long elegant formal wear woman is . The biggest advantage of the long black haute couture , redundancy is a very good store .
The most fashionable black evening dresses
Evening dresses for women dresses are among important . Black evening dresses are among the much more elegant and beautiful clothes . Black and other colors of the place is very valuable. A lot of women much more than in other colors like black . Black is a noble and plain.
Among the trendy colors this season are black . Bags and shoes with black dress black from top to bottom instead of being the kombinlerk your purse or shoes or your assessment using both color will be more stylish . For example, a black dress and red shoes with red bag will add color and beauty to your outfit .
In this way this season with black kombinlen of other vibrant colors that are extremely fashionable evening wear .
Here the most stylish and trend models are black cocktail dress .
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