Trend Report: White

White has been my favorite color for awhile but lately I've been getting much more into it. My entire room is white but now I'm working towards obtaining more white clothes and hoping to be able to easily make an outfit any day I want completely based on white. It's quite a goal but I think I can do it. 

But besides my neurotic white clothing craving, white has been showing up on runways in the form of clothing and makeup. I put together this blog post to show off the trend of white and to give inspiration for outfits anybody can assemble. This trend could easily have been foreseen from the monochrome trend that's still happening but it's taken on a life of its own. 

(as always, the pictures can be enlarged by clicking on them)

Topman Design AW2013

London Collections: Men has just started! It's (almost) a week long event of menswear shows in London (no surprise there).

Topman Design's AW2013 show was striking.

They introduced trends from the 90s and integrated them seamlessly in the show which were complimented by the other usual wintery garments. 

Camel is back! Although the "camel" color starts off in the show as more of a vanilla (as with the photo below), it transitions into a more yellow color resulting in camel.

The collar of this coat is so dramatic

Pr-Pr-PRINTED COATS!!

I love this sweater even though I never wear orange
but I could definitely work this.
Also, can anyone else see an "om" symbol in the print?

In the 90s, monochrome outfits were huge! Matching your shoes to your purse to your jacket meant you were trendy to the MAX! Well, it's coming back. Monochrome has been on it's way back in trend but I've never seen it in a fashion show like this before. 

Leather pants are divine

So this season for Topman Design, as a whole, was pretty nostalgic. I'm pleased that 90s trends are coming back (I'm a huge fan of the 1990s).

What did you think about this collection? Leave a comment...

images via www.londoncollections.co.uk

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CIFF SS13

Copenhagen Fashion Week started today and the first show was the CIFF trends show!! There was a mass load of clothing there and it was quite impressive, they had four different sections of the show with music changes (it was great music too) and all four were very different from each other. The trends they predicted are amazing. Everything from european-dance-kid to business casual to Saudi Arabian to pilgrim. Here we go....

This first outfit was as strong starter, it's like a pink silicone monster face printed on flesh tone mesh dress kind of thing. Can I just say it's 100% amazing? Like look at it. *moment of silence*

I really like this furry vest. It says "POP!" on the back and I thought it was a great piece, it's very colorful and I would absolutely love to own it. It's right on trend.

Crop sweaters for men are definitely going to be all the rage this season! They're mega awesome and I've actually really been wanting one lately, and was going to make it and it just solidifies that I really should just buy one or make one because they're obviously on trend. Also, aren't they kind of sexy or is that just me? I'm not feeling the sweatpants just because I'm partial to jeans. I think jeans would've looked awesome here....or leggings. 

I liked the personality of this piece. I'm really attracted to clothing that has different elements. This shirt is not only sheer but also has a golden-ab-structure-cutout underneath it!! How cool!

Hopefully I'm not the only one who thought this Stepford-wife dress was adorable. The trainers are a bit disconnected but the main part of the outfit, the dress, was gorgeous. And I liked the lime green belt accent. 

Most consumers are scared to mix metallics together and this combo proves it can be done. The metallic mixing was a reoccurring motif in the collection and it made me happy to see that CIFF was being "daring". 

Onto to this jacket. The above blue/white/tan fur bolero jacket just did not work. It made a very loud statement, but it was loud in all the wrong ways. It was too many colors to look good and way too overdone. Don't get me wrong, I love love love weird fashion but this was just not cute. 

I really want a quilted jacket, they're coming back in and I need one now. My only problem: it's smothering hot in Texas. 

This jacket was a bit derivative of Comme Des Garçons' latest collection, with it being oversized, and I was looking forward to things a bit more fashion-forward and predicting trends rather than playing off of trends that have already been shown. 

Ooooooh prettty ooooohhh shinnnneeeee

Fuchsia socks (or any other bright colour really) are exciting! I hope this does become "trendy" because I will rock some coloured socks in a hot minute. Regardless of trend. 

Not much to say about this outfit other than, doesn't it look like it could belong in Moonrise Kingdom?

The pace changed up and they started bringing out a series of outfits I didn't really like. At all. So I'm not going to cover them but here's a taste of them....

And the good clothing started again.....

CAMO IS HERE TO STAY!! BOOM! This jacket was in-your-face-camo. Fur+Camo=♡♡♡

Here come the pilgrims!

The grey sheer/cashmere number was lovely. Just lovely. The way it flowed was magical and I really just appreciated that piece. 

For some reason I've been really getting in to chunky heels. Here they are again. I'm in ♡.

The CIFF show was undeniably trend-setting and fire hot! They know what they're doing and I can't wait to see next season.

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