07/10/2014

Warm Shades for the Chilly Autumn

If spring got its own color palette, autumn is certainly not missing one, too. For this season the shades are more or less oriented towards natural colors, including mainly burgundy, deep red plonk as an equally valid alternative, and military green. During New York Fashion Week we similarly composed color palettes on Lacoste’s catwalk, where the color was intense from head to toe, maintaining the same gradient, except for the jackets which were slightly darker. Speaking of other chromatically tuned trends, one we particularly noticed relates to pendants: Alexander Wang went for a purple micro patterned dress, matched together with blouse and foulard.

In London, instead, we found two opposite approaches, which eventually ended up using similar tones. The precision and the high craft involved in the collection designed by Mary Katrantzou meets the utilitarian sportsmanship of Hunter Original. The first one has chosen an intense burgundy for her girly crochet, and the second headed to its closest nuance, green. Milan played a double role, too. On one side, the digital revolution of Alexis Martial, where the puffy jacket is well refined and comes in green profiled by white, and, on the other, the bourgeois woman in deep red proposed by Bottega Veneta. Dark and intense fall colors touched Parisian catwalks as well, combined together in total looks both by Acne Studios and Balmain.

Francesca Crippa