New York Fashion Week and trends in summer/spring 2023
14 Nov
Fashion events

New York Fashion Week trends in summer/spring 2023

New York Fashion Week 2023

New York Fashion Week tops the first of the four big fashion weeks in time. After several seasons in which fashion weeks faced many challenges and obstacles due to the Corona pandemic, New York Week returned as it was before the pandemic, or rather it is back better than it was before the pandemic!

As we all know, New York Fashion Week has started to recede a bit in recent years, which is why we must admit that New York Fashion Week is back on its feet again.

New York Fashion Week kicked off with the brand Proenza Schouler, and concluded with Kim Jones and Silvia Venturini Fendi.

 

The highlights of New York Fashion Week 2023

The start of New York Fashion Week for the spring-summer 2023 season coincided with Fendi’s celebration of 25 years since the launch of the famous Baguette bag.

 

 

25 years since the launch of the Baguette bag

    25 years since the launch of the Baguette bag

 

  • Kate Spade’s stunning show kicked off New York Fashion Week with nature-inspired scenes, beautifully decorated with green grass and balloons arranged like clouds in the sky. To match these decorations with the costumes to be displayed filled with flowers and colors.
New York Fashion Week and trends in summer/spring 2023

New York Fashion Week and trends in summer/spring 2023

  • The impact of the constitutional decisions in the United States of America banning the right to abortion was clear in the presentation of the famous designer Gabriella Hearst. She choose Cecil Richard, the former president of Planned Parenthood, as the model to run in her show for spring / summer 2023 as a reaction to the decision.
Cecile Richards سيسيل ريتشارد في أسبوع نيويورك للموضة

Cecil Richard, the former president of Planned Parenthood.

New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2023 trends

Sheer Fabrics

Sheer fabrics returned, as they were not a new thing in the fashion world, but they clearly appeared at New York Fashion Week for the summer and spring of 2023, appearing in loose shirt designs, or overlapping with leather pieces in other designs.

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Neon light green

Pink is still popular in the Spring-Summer 2023 collection, but Highlighter Fashion will be the new color trend. Neon colors, especially light green, will dominate next year’s colors in many designs, from beachwear to formal sets.

Neon light green

Neon light green

Cargo Pants

As noted, the cargo pants with wide pocket on the sides and the front continues as a major trend in the fashion of trousers in the year 2023. It had a prominent appearance on the runways, but the designs of the cargo pants from satin is a new and distinctive thing, as well as the cargo shorts as well.

Cargo Pants

Cargo Pants

Ruffled bell sleeves

Ruffled or puffed sleeves, and bell-shaped sleeves, were a distinctive feature of various designs for spring-summer 2023.

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Dresses with buttons down

Dresses with buttons down

Dresses with buttons down

Button down dresses are a constant trend, but in the spring of 2023, many button-down dresses were reaching the end of a dress or skirt.

 

The fringed edges on various pieces

The fringed edges on various pieces

The fringed edges on various pieces

Twenties dresses will look like flippers, and rightly so, frills are becoming the fashion of 2023, whether for dresses, shirts or even lingerie featuring these fun and eye-catching additions.

 

 

Deep sea-inspired designs

Deep sea-inspired designs

Deep sea-inspired designs

It wouldn’t be surprising to feel that the Spring 2023 collections related to the depths of the sea, mostly because the exciting new Disney movie The Little Mermaid, starring Halle Bailey, is scheduled for May 26 next year.

So green and purple, combined with sparkling sequins, will be the color theme of the 2023 fashion.

 

 

3D floral prints

3D floral prints

 

3D floral prints

Three-dimensional flowers swept the runways of the New York Fashion Week shows, along with decorations such as roses, and ruffles in the form of flowers. Floral prints have always had their share of designs, but their advantage this season is that they are three-dimensional prominent.

 

Written By Rania Abu Jbarah

12 Nov
Fashion events

London Fashion Week trends SS 2023

London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week is the second of the Big Four Fashion Weeks sequentially.

It comes after New York Fashion Week, and before Milan Week. Abbreviated as LFW, more than 250 international designers appear here.

London Fashion Week is held twice a year; one for fall-winter season, and the other for next year’s spring-summer season.

London Fashion Week is the latest international fashion week to be launched, and was launched by the British Fashion Council in 1983.

However, its importance is actually equivalent to the fashion weeks in Paris, New York and Milan, as very large numbers of journalists, designers and models participate.

 

The highlights of London Fashion Week October 2022

Impact of Queen Elizabeth II’s death and royal funeral

With the attendance of more than 106 fashion designers from around the world, the London Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2023 began.

The death of the British Queen Elizabeth II left feelings of sadness that clouded the city of fog.

The organizers of this global event launched a statement emphasizing their sadness for the death of the Queen, the tendency to reduce the shows, and cancel the celebrations out of respect for the feelings of the British people.

As a result of the statement, some shows were postponed, especially those meeting with the royal funeral day September 19, to be on another day outside the schedule of Fashion Week. British.

 

For example, Burberry initially canceled its show and later postponed it until after the end of Milan Fashion Week and before Paris Fashion Week on September 27, 2022, out of respect for the Queen’s huge legacy.

Richard Quinn designed more than 20 all-black outfits in honor of the Queen for a show at the end of London Fashion Week.

LONDON FASHION WEEK

LONDON FASHION WEEK

Fashion trends at London Week Summer/Spring 2023

Woven mesh pieces

Wearing macramé-style pieces was a trend at London Week, or even adding mesh styles to some pieces was also common.

 

Woven mesh pieces

Woven mesh pieces

Ultra-shiny metallic colors

Metallic colors were on the catwalks in London, or as they might be called, the elegant aluminum colors, with spherical designs, which will often be seen on red carpets in the upcoming award seasons, only these designs will be more attractive.

Ultra-shiny metallic colors

Ultra-shiny metallic colors

Layered dresses with ruffles

The conflict still between old classic and modern contemporary, and this tension also dominated the shows of London Fashion Week Summer and Spring 2023, ruffles are an old fashion that has been introduced with comfortable sports shoes, to be more modern and suitable to practical life.

Layered dresses with ruffles

Layered dresses with ruffles

Dresses over pants

It will not be excluded after this fashion week, wearing an elegant feminine dress from the top and matching it with pants that gives comfort to the general appearance.

This fashion is generated by combining what suits day and night, combining between feminine and masculine style to bring this confusion to the result.

From Molly Goddard’s off-the-shoulder dresses to Simone Rocha’s runway shows.

 

Dresses over pants

Dresses over pants

 

 

Written By Rania Abu Jbarah

PARIS FASHION WEEK SS 2023
07 Nov
Fashion events, Fashion trends

PARIS FASHION WEEK SS 2023

Paris Fashion Week usually takes place twice a year; Spring-Summer, Fall-Winter Fashion, as the last of the Big Four Fashion Week. Paris Fashion Week for the spring-summer season takes place in October each year.

The exact dates are set by the French Fashion Federation, and it is held in several regions around Paris.

What is known about Paris, the city whose designers inspire everyone…

 

The highlights of Paris Fashion Week October 2022

  • The first Parisian show for Victoria Beckham.  After participating in both London and New York Fashion Weeks, Victoria Beckham participated in Paris Fashion Week for the first time. She was supported and encouraged by her husband, David Beckham, and her two sons, Romeo and Cruz.

 

The Parisian show for Victoria Beckham

The Parisian show for Victoria Beckham

 

  • Bella Hadid appeared on the catwalk wearing a dress that was sprayed with white paint during the show.
    Designer Manel Torres’ creation of the spray cloth, that was an innovative and out-of-the-ordinary idea in the fashion world.

 

Bella Hadid sprayed dress

    Bella Hadid sprayed dress

 

  • Saint Laurent’s show was a collection of dresses with a hood or a scarf that appeared in the old Hollywood style.
Saint Laurent's show

Saint Laurent’s show

  • Chanel showed in front of a movie screen showing her scenes from “Last Year at Marienbad” (1961). The heroine of the film appeared wearing the Coco Chanel design for 60 years.
Chanel show

Chanel show

The most fashion trends of Paris Week Summer/Spring 2023

Leather uppers

Although the collections are for the spring and summer season, leather was the top material used for the Paris Week designs.
To match the warm weather, leather was used as a small piece on tops in designs such as Givenchy and Mono.

Givenchy Spring Summer 2023

Givenchy Spring Summer 2023

Most of the pieces were low waist

With a variety of pieces of skirts and pants, most of them were with a low waist.

low waist pants

low waist pants

Hoop skirts

Back in the 18th century, brands like Dior, Lanvin and Cecilie Bahnsen took inspiration from spherical designs as one of the impractical trends of Paris Fashion Week.
Innovative modern versions accentuate the lower body.

Hoop skirts

Hoop skirts

Designs vary in lengths on both sides

The lengths of many designs varied in the summer and spring fashion shows in Paris, and it even came to the contrast of the entire design from right to left in the same piece.

Designs vary in lengths on both sides

Designs vary in lengths on both sides

socks under clothes

Wearing socks in the summer and spring 2023 collection was remarkable, as it suits more the fall and winter. It varies in patterns such as different prints with various fabrics (lace and chiffon), and socks that are embroidered or identical to the print of the same design.

socks under clothes

socks under clothes

Wear a headscarf or scarf of the same design

Many designs appeared with a hood as a scarf from the same design fabric in different ways and distinguished by many brands such as Saint Laurent, Schiaparelli, Mônot and Off-White.

scarf of the same design

scarf of the same design

Purple and mint green are the colors of femininity

The trendy colors in Victoria Beckham’s show and Givenchy’s show were mint green and purple to represent sexiness and femininity.

the colors of femininity

the colors of femininity

Extra large details buttons and zippers

The use of some details resulted in a noticeable enlargement in the designs of Louis Vuitton, who used large prominent zippers, large buttons and puffed pockets focusing on these details.

Extra large zippers

Extra large zippers

Roses Prints

A plenty of designs appeared in rose prints or inspired by them, which is nothing as designers find creative ways to display them in every season. 

 

Roses Prints

Roses Prints

 

Written By Rania Abu Jbarah

The story of the Wedding dress
02 Nov
All about clothing

The story of the Wedding dress

What is the story of a wedding dress?

 From the past to the present,,,,

 Nowadays, it is strange to choose a wedding dress other than white. This is a ritual that most cultures and societies follow today, but when did it start? How did we get to these beautiful designs gradually? What did brides wear in the past?

Brides wore dresses related to their different cultures, religions and customs. But what we will present here is the story of the white wedding dress and what did the brides wear before it.

What did the bride wear before the white wedding dress?

The concept of wedding dress changed over time until we came to wearing white. In the Arab region, the bride wore traditional dresses dedicated to the bride. The bride wore seven dresses over the 7 days before the wedding day.

On the wedding day, she shines in the traditional dress, which differs from one region to another. That was in several Arab regions, such as Palestine.

traditional dress

traditional dresses in Salt- Jordan / Palestine

In the city of Salt in Jordan, the bride wore – Alkhlkah Alsalteya-. It is in red and black and has embroidery on the edges. While in medieval Europe, the bride wore the most beautiful dress she had, regardless of its color.

 

Who was the first to wear a white wedding dress?

 

  • The first wearing of a white wedding dress back to 1406, when Princess Phillipia wore it in England on her marriage to Eric Pomerania. In a royal wedding she wore a tunic with a white silk cloak.
  • Queen Mary of Scotland wore a white wedding dress in 1559 when she married her first husband, Francis Dauphin of France. Although it was the color of mourning for French queens, it was her favorite color.
  • In 1840, Queen Victoria wore a white silk ivory wedding dress when she married Prince Albert. It was the real idea for a white wedding dress. That is why the designers and the most famous tailors at the time copied the idea of ​​the Queen’s wedding dress to be the perfect dress for many brides.
Queen Victoria white wedding dress

Queen Victoria white wedding dress

  • In the nineteenth century, it was common for bridesmaids to wear white dresses and white veils covering their hair.
bridesmaids wear white dresses

bridesmaids wear white dresses

  • In the mid-19th century, white wedding dresses actually appeared among most social classes. It is made of embroidered silk and lace.
  • At the end of the 19th century, the high neckline and long-sleeved designs of wedding dresses with elegant gloves and a full-length skirt became the hallmark of Victorian dresses.
Victorian dresses

Victorian dresses

 

  • In the early twentieth century, the comfort style of the Edwardian era was common. Wedding dresses showed the sudden transition, with dresses becoming loose-fitting and gowns made of delicate fabrics like lace.
  • The gowns covering the bride from the neck to the bottom of her feet also continued.
  • In the second decade of the twentieth century, low-waist wedding dresses began to become very popular with long veils. Brides also started using hair accessories to match the veils and tiaras.

 

 

low-waist wedding dresses
  • After the 20s of the twentieth century. the risk of designs began to appear, as the lengths of wedding dresses became shorter, reaching just beyond the knee.
  • The prevalence of the flower bouquet, which is carried by the bride. It was known as shower bouquet, the waterfall, or the fountain. It was circular from the top and drops from the bottom.
the flowers bouquet

The flowers bouquet

  • In the 1950s, the trend was more romantic and feminine. The dresses of Jacqueline Kennedy at her wedding to John F. Kennedy in 1953, and actress Elizabeth Taylor, had their influence on fashion.
  • Tea length dresses – from below the knee to a few inches above the ankle – were also very popular in the 1950s.
Tea length dresses

Tea length dresses

  • In the early 1960s, the short veil became popular, and the sleeves were shorter to three-quarters in length.
The early 1960s Dreese's

The early 1960s Dreese’s

Wedding Dress 1980-2023 and the royal influence on fashion

  • Princess Diana’s dress in the eighties of the twentieth century had a major role in changing the fashion of wedding dresses for puffed sleeves and long tails.
Princess Diana's dress

Princess Diana’s dress

  • In the 1990s, off-shoulder dresses, and bows on the back of dresses, became popular.
off-shoulder dresses in 1990

Off-shoulder dresses in 1990

 

  • In the early 2000s, wedding dresses were strapless, or strapless with thin straps.
2000s wedding dresses

2000s wedding dresses

  • In 2011 Kate Middleton promoted long lace sleeves when she wore them to her wedding to Prince William. which and continued for a long time after.
Kate Middleton wedding dress

Kate Middleton wedding dress

 

  • In 2019, Meghan Markle wore a simple, boat-necked wedding dress by Givenchy. The dress also became an icon for a while, due to the royal influence on fashion.
Meghan Markle wedding dress

Meghan Markle wedding dress

  • As for the fashion of wedding dresses in 2022, and the fashion lines of wedding dresses for the year 2023. They varied between short-long dresses, accordion sleeves, and long puffed sleeves.

 

 

Written by: Rania Abu Jbarah

NYFW Bridal Oct 2022 Trends
29 Oct
Fashion events, Fashion trends

NYFW Bridal Oct 2022 Trends

7 Trends from Bridal Fashion Week 2023

 

The coronavirus pandemic has left its impact on our lives including the choice of wedding dress, COVID-19 has made simplicity the general characteristic of post-pandemic brides; focusing more on the concepts of love, marriage and family and avoiding appearances that may be deceptive.

The rapid change in life, the feeling of instability, encouraged many to celebrate their marriage with close people and friends simply. These changes in the fashion world have continuing effects after the pandemic.

 

The New York Bridal Fashion Week October 2022 shows brought back some of the old wedding dress trends

in a new style. New trends emerge for 2023, whether in the style of the design, the type of fabric, or even the detail of the sleeves.

Here are 7 of the most prominent of these trends:

1. The choice of sheer fabrics expresses Daring and
sharpness

The Morilee Empire bridal collection shown at NYFW was inspired by the nature of New York City itself. A city characterized by boldness, strength and intensity, blended with the romantic and delicate nature of wedding dresses.

The use of sheer fabrics in various wedding dress designs was an expression of this mix of what is daring and sharpness of the designs.

 

 

The Morilee Empire bridal collection

The Morilee Empire bridal collection

Julie Vino

Julie Vino 2023 bridal collection

2. Off-shoulder wedding dresses

The designs of the dresses in the shows were off-shoulder. It varies in shape; whether it is inflated, sheer fabric, or embroidered.

We see these designs in many collections of designers like Zuhair Murad, Elie Saab, Reem Acra and Tony Ward.

Elie Saab Fall 2023 collection

Elie Saab Fall 2023 collection

3. Nylon and leather wedding dresses

We are used to seeing wedding dresses woven from organza, chiffon, crepe, lace and taffeta.
The use of leather and nylon was out of the ordinary in many shows, such as the Nadia Manjarrez collection and the Houghton collection by Katharine Polk.

مجموعة هوتون بتصميم كاثرين بولك فساتين زفاف من الجلد

Leather wedding dress

فساتين زفاف مصنوعة من النايلون والجلد

Nylon wedding dress

4. Layers of tulle

Tulle has always dominated wedding dresses, and this season, dresses designed made entirely of tulle or ball gowns dresses in tulle.

فساتين زفاف بطبقات التل

Layers of tulle

5. body-hugging dresses

Brands took a calculated risk. the wedding dresses collections were divided into two categories that included everything elegant and classic and at the same time sexy and smooth, including tight dresses with cuts that hug the body and embrace its curves.

مطابقة للجسم دانا هريل 2023

body-hugging dress

6. Mini-Low dresses

Many girls like to wear short dresses on their wedding day, while they want to keep the classic style of them. To achieve this desire, many brands have adopted the style of short dresses in the front and long back to maintain the beauty of the two designs in one design.

الفساتين القصيرة والطويلة في ذات الوقت

Mini-Low dress

فساتين زفاف قصيرة وطويلة في ذات الوقت من تصميم josevilla moniquelhuillier

AMSALE Muriel Mini-Low dress

فساتين زفاف قصيرة وطويلة في ذات الوقت من تصميم AMSALE Muriel

AMSALE Muriel Mini-Low dress

7. Flared Sleeves

 

It was not new in the fashion world, it may go back to the seventies of last century, but its appearance in the shows of Bridal Fashion Week for the fall of 2023 determined the style that it would be. Here is a design from the fashion house Halfpenny London with wide sleeves with pleats similar to the accordion, which distinguished it, as was the appearance of Clear wide lace and ribbed sleeves.

 

فساتين زفاف بأكمام فراشة

Flared Sleeves

 

 

 

WRITTEN BY: Rania Abu Jbarah

 

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