Now the European summer trade show season is over, for us anyway, I’ve compiled a list of the best highlights, looks and pattern design trends from this seasons shows in Paris and London 🇬🇧 🇫🇷
The world of fabrics, and pattern design trends is every changing, and this year was no different.
We’ve seen geometric patterns, vector patterns, big flowing fits, and a return of pastel colours like purple and pink 👚
The first part of this series will take a look at the overview and highlights of the summer fabric design patterns.
In summary:
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Starting with fabrics, the season saw the return of fabrics with a powerful presence and personality for Fall-Winter 23-24.
From more grungy looks (did we mention the 00s were back 👀), to more disordered surfaces like honeycomb 🍯
Below is brief highlights of the trends of the season, along with some moodboard examples.
Woolens, knits and fake-furs displayed more grungy looks this season. Torn-out, hairy wool jacquards that showed a rawer and cozier atmosphere for moodboards and outfits the coming colder months (Just not yet I hope #summerforever)😎
The weavers and knitters have treated us to a season of fabrics with honeycomb textures of all kinds and sizes. This familiar structure is found in pique knits, woolens and sport cottons.
This is a trend that I can certainly get behind, with the new artificial skins being a reimagining of the micro-fiber peach skins of the 90s and early 00s 🍑
The powdery suede feeling is given a refresh in micro, crispy versions popping up in everything from active sports to silkies and examples of every fashion category in-between.
Next up, what are the 2022 fabric design patterns, and pattern in elements of design that caught our attention this summer?
When we were searching for, and thinking about designing patterns, the return of bright bold patterns, colours and floral arrangements, brightened up the stands in the shows we visited 🛒
I've listed a of of these pattern design trends in particular below.
Pattern design drawing this season lead to, geological textures, marble veins, wobbly lines, electric arches and floral blots were the main print types we saw, with more chaotic, jigsaws, collages and random terrazzo markings playing a big part of the samples 🧩
Check the moodboard example below showing some of the best decorative prints 👇
Another take way from this seasons patterns for design were fabric design patterns that fell somewhere between pop and surrealism.
This was the particular aesthetic of black and white photocopies, artisanal transfers, and series of screen prints in the style of Andy Warhol 🥣
Another one of this season’s fabric design pattern trends saw calming and brown backgrounds, while the very large designs were languorously displayed with supple, almost softened contours.
Scales have been combined, and designs within patterns combining the very tiny with the very huge, tricking the eyes gaze 🌸
Ever-present everywhere we looked this summer, we couldn’t get away from designing patterns that combined examples of flowers in the shows we visited 🌼
Bouquets and fleurettes attempted to transport viewers into a whimsical, highly colourful alternate universes, with their bold, colourful pattern design drawing.
This was a range of fabric design patterns and design trends which used creative techniques that presented new ways of revisiting the timeless that included vegetation, camouflage and geometric patterns.
However, they were reimagined through expressive visuals, such as through the physical moodboard example below 🖼
A key theme through all the pattern design trends and fabric design patterns this summer was a return to splendour and opulence, with an appetite for ornamentation. Highly elaborate geometric patterns and pattern design drawing motifs, this take on the season’s floral mood was crossed with historical references such as, Byzantine design patterns and influences (more on this in a later blog) 🏛
Over the next few weeks I’ll be going into more detail into the fabrics, patterns design trends, and prints from summer, and will be providing more comprehensive details on the patterns and designs that caught our eye 👁
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Until the next time.
Keep making those dots 🤙🏾
