Perfecting the 2011 Palettes

CEBU, Philippines - In any trend and in any style, color is definitely a huge part of the entire ensemble. Color, more than cut and silhouette, sets the mood. It makes or breaks the outfit. It highlights the season du jour.

Color, more than anything, ignites the imagination and takes the mind to places that are closest to the heart at the moment.

For 2011, Spin Expo, an international trade fair for various kinds of textiles held in both New York and Shanghai have made our job easier by pin pointing the color trends that will set the mood for an entirely new decade in four exciting themes.

Escape

Traveling to exotic places and immersing oneself in cultures unfamiliar will be among what 2011 will be all about. Planes, boats, buses are only a few of the ways to get there. A big chunk of the traveling will bank on the passport that will be fashion—of fabrics, cuts, colors, textures, and all things that spell style.

Escape to a field of dreams with powdered levels of colors in pinkish taupe, warm coppers, soft browns, enriched with deep rose and blue gray. Drape over a sense of protection with a muted sense of luxury pointing towards redefining perfection. Unleash the rawness of femininity that’s built on natural charm, rustic delicateness, and hint of what’s wild. 

Fashionising.com and Spin Expo believe that 2011’s need to escape theme will center on powdery finishes, extreme/exaggerated stitches, soft shimmer and luster, layering from fine to chunky, diffused surfaces through hair and brushing, feathery, twisted, and ruffled textures, broken surfaces with a natural platina, smooth, luxurious shine, warm, smooth textures, and burnished metallics.

Play

Twenty-eleven will be about breathing a new sense of life into the everyday things. It’s about having fun, enjoying life, and discovering the new in the old. Playing will be about discovering the self and experimenting.

The color scheme for 2011 will highlight an active—but not extreme lifestyle. It will lean more towards getting creative with nature and wit the outdoors. With vibrant pops of color, this scheme is meant to shake the boredom out of the techno-age generation.

The themes for the color scheme will revolve around iridescent glows and luster, natural and synthetic textures, simple micro textures, drapes, fluid fabrics, movements, fresh stripes, compact, dense, peached, polished sheens achieved by fiber choice and mercerizing, graphic plays of color and pattern, yarns and fabrics that can perform and energize, stretch, technical finishes, and new innovations.

Explore

Exploration takes us to a similar theme: Freedom. Similar to escaping, exploring is all about exciting the senses through activities that excite the soul as well. The main theme is reinvention, it is about destroying the old to create the new.

Exploration will be marked with spikes of colors in warm russet orange, strong reds, golds, bronzes, contrasted by vibrant teals and pinks mixed together in a brooding, painterly dimension, as Spin Expo would have it. It will be high on individuality, capitalizing on he hands with fancy embellishments that will enhance and recreate new looks entirely.

Explore and free the spirit with appearances that are deceptive with handmade pieces that look rough but are soft to the touch. Be loud with rich and bold patterns and colors, irregular textures, and rich and vibrant metallics. Individuality will call for novelty textures and novelty fiber blends, printing and hand painting. Surface will evoke a lot of interest with velvet, hair, and raised surfaces. Volume, round looks, chunky but weightless designs. 

Shine

The later part of 2011 will herald the mysterious and the intense. These will be the trademarks of standing out in the new decade. Futuristic themes will be under the spotlight. Inky blues, grays, and blacks will carry this theme to an entirely new level. Shimmering yet burnished highlights of silver and gold will offer decorative relief, Fashionising.com emphasizes.

This is a time to meld vintage and high technology. It is a time to create drama and intrigue, desire and satisfaction. The goal is perfection and exquisite beauty—the legacy of style.

Shine this 2011 in fine, threadlike counts, and highly twisted fabrics, exquisite embellishments and jewels used with finesses, polished surfaces from bright shine to subtle sheens, subtle crinkled textures, sparkles, burnished and aged metallics, silky drapes and fluid looks, fur, plush, and feathery effects, aged appearances, velvet, lace and ruffles.