Spring Summer 2016 Trends Couture and Ready To Wear

As this unit requires us to complete not only two looks for each section (Advertisement, editorial and catwalk) my chosen brand has no clothing brand behind it like Tom Ford, Chanel or Givenchy. This makes my brand a little more difficult to find a style for the catwalk section of the unit and also matching this to both the advert and editorial images. 

After researching 2016 trends, most common to this season is 70's inspired, Victorian, Spanish influenced styles. The couture shows by Givenchy, who's designs features crystals, snakeskins, velvet lace and leather outfits, Chanel who went for a more economical, classic chanel/victorian style design, Elie Saab mixed Edwardian styled outfits with Indian inspired outfits and finally Zuhair Murtah went for a more Elizabethan inspired design featuring corsets, curves, watercolour hues, lace, satin and sequins. 

Couture Shows- 

      -Givenchy, 2016.                                -Zuhair Murad, 2016                     -Elie Saab, 2016

Ready to wear, Spring 2016- 
Louis Vuitton 

A futuristic, travelling to a new dimension extravaganza. Models feature bright bubblegum pink hair with adornments on their faces and pale skin with defined eyes.

                 

Alexander McQueen: 

'The girls had pink-cheeked complexions and tousled hair flowing down their backs—a bunch of young English roses who might have been caught by Julia Margaret Cameron’s camera lens in Victorian times'- Style.com, Alexander McQueen

                   

Chloe

'Chloe: The 1990s is one of Spring’s big stories, but no one has put forward her interest in the decade more explicitly than Clare Waight Keller at Chloé. On every seat, there was a printed note: “This season’s collection is a tribute to girls named Kate, Chloé, Cecilia, Corinne, Rosemary, Emma, and Courtney, who embody the liberty and the elegance of a perfectly mastered and excessively lived simplicity.” - Style.com, Chloe. 

                 

Balmain

'Rousteing toned down the color this season to focus on shades of nude, but there was no equivalent dialing-back of the embellishments that have weighed down his recent collections. The macramé was as full-on as ever, and often in crystals or beads, and the tiered ruffles were even more flamboyant than last season’s silk plissé. Those ruffles notwithstanding, the silhouette was super clingy, loaded with cutouts and sheer paneling, and cinched with waist trainer–size belts. Joan Smalls slithered down the runway in short, stretchy green suede, the show’s best look, but the restrictive, tight-fitting tube skirts gave other models problems.' - Style.com,  

                    

Tory Burch

“beauty found in unexpected places . . . enhanced through time and nature” as her inspiration. spins on the trends of this summer and next: Blocky striped knit tops worn with a wide-leg, high-waisted trouser embroidered with a design that lay somewhere between an Aztec and a botanical diagram, brightly accented narrow guipure lace separates in periwinkle and saffron, fringed-tweed wrap skirts, tassel-hemmed linen trapeze tops, and embroidered folk blouses of Mexican and Romanian origin rendered in pale blue striped cotton shirting.'- Style.com, Tory Burch. 

All quotes and images fround: Vogue. Style.Com. Fashion Shows. Runway.  http://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/