Aligning With Complexities
Informa Markets Fashion held its Fall and Winter 2024-2025 Women’s Trends on Thursday, lining up with an urgent need to tap into the past for generating fashion such as sourcing and key wisdom learned by those who came before us, there’s also the opportunity to engage on a new take on fashion based on advancements of technology, and dealing with challenges of the world through rebellion and comforting pieces, Fashion Snoops joins in on the FW 24/25 season with a 4 category mood breakdown that includes Sentimental, Immersive, Chaos, and Fragility.
SENTIMENTAL
No matter where you go, everybody’s gotta story about coming back from the COVID-19 pandemic, and it hasn’t been easy, the only way to cope is to seek out soulful looks that interest both the millennial and Gen Z woman, searching for the origins of what they’re wearing, and how to maintain it because they want to hold on to it longer, nostalgia and novelty contribute to this new maximalism also including abstract and a main character from a movie feel; the folk tale feel yet thoughts of the movie “Twilight” lay out a color palette of twilight, baked pear, indigo, oxblood, egg yolk, and mountain mist, without it feeling like “Midsommar”.
Women’s key items include tapestry coat with dress designed similarly, intarsia sweater paired with plaid dress, patterned blazer paired with like-minded skirt and corset top, and embellished shirt inspiring the entire look; plus there’s young contemporaries taking up-cycling to corset top over shirts, craft winter knits in skirts, patchwork jackets made of knits, and up-cycled jeans maintained to last.
Accessories for those dressier moments are a tribute to sentimental wisdom starting with the woven wrap flat that gives the return of the ballet flat a whole new tapestry feel with woven wrapped ankles hugging the ballet flat, brocade pouch saluting past tapestries with enameled buckle and glass bead trim, heirloom charms of nostalgic jewelry with hearts and symbols for layered jewel thrift, and old-world artisan gloves lined with gilded embroidery.
IMMERSIVE
A woman’s needs are always changing, and they’re becoming open to breaking boundaries if not more detailed or responsive already, women also want evolving technology such as next gen internet web 3 to inspire brands to make them feel part of the equation while women morph and evolve constantly, this new liquid feel in design takes you on a drug free trip of a dreamscape of flexible design that adapts to functionality and fantastical silhouettes with a color palette of blue palm, limelight, vitality, beetroot, cellulose, fire spark, and lava.
Women’s key items in immersive include the slinky dress that’s a sweater dress not too bulky, metallic pants in denim landing in cosmic territory, printed monk top merged with black and yellow patterns to give it new life as it takes another go around this season, and the convertible puffer coat morphs the question of immersive as you can wear it in different ways which also include adding or subtracting parts of this puffer coat for desired function and look.
Young contemporary items include tie front blouse for exploring prints and patterns with directional fashion, baggy cargo pants utilitarian inspired gifting mid or lower rise with baggy silhouette and pouch pockets, bomber jacket also utilitarian acting more as a base with shiny look for edge, and slinky embellished dress living up to its detail with holiday inspired colors.
The immersive takes on the future in full command with women’s accessories that include lurex knit boot created to be stretch sequin that merges and ask the question on whether it’s footwear or legwear, mirror adorned bag embellished clutch that borrows from metallic pants to find a new way to showcase it, chrome frames reinventing angular shapes with silver chrome finish, and orbital collar jewelry mixed with metals and natural stones acting as sphere-headed chokers for futuristic vibe.
CHAOS
Chaos is just that, it’s never meant to arrive on time and forces you to adapt quickly, also trying to prepare for the crises taking place in the world currently as unrest and post-COVID-19 consequences don’t seem to get better, our only course of action is to respond and arm ourselves for the chaos that continues to unfold, the workplace and corporate culture are now in question as equality and responsibility from both are needed, and finding brands that align with what society and planet needs, colors of this conundrum include oxblood, lava, heat, nimbostratus, black, thunder, and inky.
Women’s key items in chaos are deconstructed with deconstructed blazer that’s off kilter and off shoulder, leather maxi skirt sends a severe message through a normally neutral piece that’s now marred in shock therapy with also the potential to wear it in denim, crop turtleneck moving forward in future seasons as it adapts to all seasons in turtleneck body, and crossover jeans in denim also applying deconstruction with waistband added.
Young contemporary items loved are openwork sweater with skin flash and off-the-shoulder detail to layer over bra tops or bandu, low rise cargo pants this time in faux leather, leather like material, or material with grit, moto jacket not crisp or clean leather that’s worn in with character with 90’s moto silhouette, and sheer pants that’s transparent for going out, holiday outings, and novelty in your closet.
Women’s accessories in chaos include visible construction found on a boot with acid-treated denim, ruff seams with pointed toe and leather heel, distressed denim on a handbag inspired by punk vibe with chains and distressed also, red tinted lenses with wired frames and smoky red lenses for ultra sleek feel, and grommet studded oversized belt applied on leather for a gritty aesthetic.
FRAGILITY
As we emerge from all the harmful aspects of the world, we’ve come to terms with the fact that we need to focus on our own self-care, seeking out products, but useful fashion that’s going to provide us the proper care for our physical health and most importantly, our mental health, this means eliminating products from our life that end up being counterproductive to improving our well-being, finding meaningful fashion in also colorful panoply of croissant, sea salt, sour mint, overcast, winter coral, dusted clay, tile, and pewter.
Women’s key items for the easiness of fragility are off-the-shoulder wrap top revealing appreciation for wrap style that’s not always required to be cropped, maxi slip skirt and satin pants in longer silhouette that’s more formidable for the older customer in pastels, and soft bomber jacket with soft quilting and satin sheen to it.
The young women’s contemporary key items take a different turn with a skirt set in long column lines with delicate details such as rosette, sheer skirt with slip silhouette in pencil shape and can be layered, shrug is a new take on cut and sew knit shoulder item, and barely there slip dress for a layered beautiful element.
Fragility women’s accessories include ruched leather found in high heel open toe shoes with tonal leather stitched together, seamlessly mended handbag that purposely exposes creation of handbag, foldable hat for plush material and slub leather, and silk cord – clear glass as a new form of jewelry becoming no doubt a keepsake.
Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic along with Gen Z showing off their love for the 90’s and early 2000’s fashion, this fall and winter 2024-2025 will see their humble yet cute aesthetics and silhouettes get an infusion of edge and immersive futuristic bold ideas splashed onto the fashion scene, it also signals Gen Z’s desire to be more stylish with what they possess as fashionable, while making room for previous it girls, the millennials, back into the fold, also bringing on millennial’s children known as the ALPHAS into the fashion scene as consumers slowly and more rapidly wake up from lockdown and get dressy again, both in women’s, advanced women’s, and young women’s.